Castaic Lake Water Agency 2002 Groundwater Banking Project

Castaic Lake Water Agency 2002 Groundwater Banking Project

Castaic Lake Water Agency (CLWA) proposes to take delivery of its total State Water Project (SWP) allocation and deliver a portion of that water that is not needed to meet its anticipated demands in 2002 to the Semitropic Water Storage District (SWSD). SWSD would temporarily store up to 24,000 acre-feet (AF) of CLWA's unused 2002 SWP deliveries for later withdrawal and delivery to the CLWA service area in a future year or years. The 24,000 AF would be stored in the SWSD Groundwater Banking Project using SWSD's existing groundwater banking facilities. SWSD may use this 24,000 AF of SWP water in lieu of pumping groundwater for irrigation or to directly recharge the underlying groundwater basin. Upon request, SWSD would return CLWA's previously stored 24,000 AF of SWP water in one or more years by either (1) pumping the water from its groundwater basin through pumpback facilities into the Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct, at which time the water would become part of the SWP water supply pool and would be conveyed to CLWA; or (2) by requesting that an equivalent amount of SWSD's SWP water be delivered to CLWA. Storage of the 24,000 AF of SWP water, under the proposed project, would not require the construction of new facilities, or the improvement of any existing facilities within the CLWA or SWSD service areas.

Kern, Los Angeles, Ventura

California Coastal Commission (CCC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, South Coast Region 5 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 6 (DOT), California Energy Commission, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Region 4 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Water Resources, Resources Agency, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

California Department of Transportation, District 7 (DOT)

Other (Groundwater Banking)

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