Our final comments on the Napa Groundwater Sustainability Plan, submitted to the Groundwater Sustainability Agency on Dec. 6, 2021.

We, the Napa Group of the Redwood Chapter of the Sierra Club have been following the process of the GSPAC and attempted to contribute to the discussion. We feel that the plan as drafted follows the state guidelines, but misses the opportunity to...

The large enterprise the county is engaging in to comply with the State Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) includes a very complex and expensive modeling of the groundwater and the inputs and outputs to the water going into and stored under the...

The notion of “systems” is too often overlooked in our analyses. We fail to see the interconnectedness of things, or worse, we ignore it. This is the certainly the case in the approach of the County of Napa, which chooses to ignore the reality of...

The Napa County is in the process of preparing a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) for the Napa Valley Subbasin, as required by the State for all high- and medium- priority groundwater basins. But because the GSP is focusing only on actions...

We urge the Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) to take a leadership role in assuring water sustainability, quality, and security, and acting in the best interest of current and future Napa County residents and our environment. We challenge the...

As we all know, water is a precious resource, especially during these times of drought. Chris Sauer, who is on the County's Groundwater Sustainability Plan committee, explains what is happening for the future of Napa's water sustainability.