Purpose of the Citizen Advisory Group

SGMA required the EMA GSA to consider the interests of diverse social, cultural, and economic elements of the population within the EMA during the development of the GSP, including the interests of all beneficial uses and users of groundwater. Collaborative and inclusive processes make the GSP more effective by increasing public buy-in, promoting compliance, and enhancing the quality of information on which the GSP is based. The EMA GSA maintains a current list of organizations and people who receive notices of GSA Board meetings and other SGMA-related activities. The CAG provides an additional level of public input to the Board in a way that represents different categories of groundwater uses and users in the EMA. 

To ensure an effective and collaborative process, the Board will appoint members to the CAG who reflect a diversity of interests and different types of groundwater uses and users in the EMA. The CAG will provide input to the Board relating to various elements or sections of the GSP, including but not limited to those pertaining to stakeholder engagement, data management, the hydrogeologic conceptual model and numeric groundwater model, water budgets, sustainability goals, monitoring programs, and projects and management actions.