Amador County – Amador Water Agency received a report on an Integrated Regional Groundwater Management Plan last week for the Camanche Water District Number 7, which took one-and-a-half years to compile.
AWA General Manager Gene Mancebo said “due to a long history of failing wells on the Lake Camanche Village water system, state regulators have put limitations on the number of connections allowed there until the Agency could complete a water sustainability study.”
Pat Dunn, president of Dunn Environmental, gave the AWA Board the results of the study that his firm conducted “to establish the quantity and quality of the water in the 12,000-acre Lake Camanche area groundwater basin.”
In 2008, AWA applied for a grant and in 2010, the agency received a $248,000 grant from the California Department of Water Resources to conduct the comprehensive study of the underground water in Camanche Water District Number 7, to develop a plan on how to best manage it.
“Dunn Environmental used monitoring and test wells, some almost 500 feet deep, to map the local geology and hydrogeology in the Camanche area,” Mancebo said. Dunn “studied weather data back to 1970 and looked at 268 local well yields over the course of a full year.”
The California Department of Water Resources has reviewed and accepted Dunn’s study. The full report is available on the AWA’s website, AmadorWater.org. It can also be read at the AWA customer service desk at the main office during normal business hours.
AWA President Gary Thomas called for a special board meeting at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 19, and part of the agenda will be discussion and possible action regarding repair or redevelopment of Well 14 in the Lake Camanche Water Improvement District No. 7.
Thomas called the special budget workshop meeting to review the proposed fiscal year 2012-2013 budget. The agenda also includes a review of proposed 2012-2013 capital improvement projects. Members of the public will have the opportunity to directly address the Agency Board of Directors concerning any item listed on the Special Meeting agenda.
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