The Monterey County Board of Supervisors has agreed to the basic structure of a Groundwater Sustainability Act. Monterey County Water Resources Agency officials are going to ask to delay the agreed upon deadlines, to create a water project (that battles seawater intrusion) in the Salinas Valley. The State Water Board says that the water projects the county agreed to build back in 1957 (when the original rights were granted) have never been built. 2 of the projects are: the Interlake Tunnel Project, which would add a large amount of storage capacity to Lake San Antonio; and the GroundWater Sustainability Act, which will mandate a new set of deadlines to bring the Salinas Valley Water Basin into balance. Right now there is more groundwater being pumped out, than there is recharging the aquifers. Water agency officials will need to complete a plan by 2020.
