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The Committee approved the consent calendar and directed staff to price FY 2028 budget components, including its existing one-seventh JPA cost share and a proposed 20% operational reserve; no budget was adopted. The model ad hoc generally supported MODFLOW 6, pending two GSA confirmations. Combined model and annual-report data are due November 13; earlier well-registration, pumping and policy submissions remain due November 30. Late data could raise costs and delay review.
Clearway’s Devil’s Den solar option lease is signed: a $150,000 bonus was received and $609,000 was expected. Staff favored a standalone ordinance addressing potable-water irrigation of non-functional turf for possible December board consideration; staff said the agency remains far from meeting the January 2027 turf-watering deadline for most public-agency properties. Greenhouse gas emissions are down 52% since 2020, ahead of the agency’s original and updated targets.
The State Water Board will hear comments on the proposed Bay-Delta Plan update October 28–29; North Delta flagged unresolved potential in-Delta curtailments. Participants described severe hyacinth in some waterways, and the Watermaster warned that golden mussels could narrow diversion pipes. All seven monitoring sites met contract salinity criteria. The Northern Sierra index showed no precipitation so far in Water Year 2027, and Lake Oroville held 1.6 million acre-feet.
The Planning Committee recommended that the Board of Directors seek Board of Supervisors adoption of a regional water planning forum concept and creation of an ad hoc committee. Staff expects a draft 2026 Strategic Plan for review in November. Amid discussion of a possible super El Niño, the Agency plans to request about $107,000 on October 13 for monitoring-station replacements, portable debris-flow monitors and communications upgrades.
Staff outlined additional distribution-system PFAS sampling and plans to sample for microplastics at source wells and in the system. They discussed possible desalting and aquifer storage at Armstrong Ranch that could reduce reliance on agricultural groundwater wells. The district is also increasing seawater intrusion monitoring near Reservation Road and Imjin Parkway after observing possible movement of the intrusion front.
