1. A preferred project portfolio was selected before this meeting; project funding and project-specific cost allocation remain unresolved. The Salinas Valley Basin GSA board previously selected what staff now call the Preferred Portfolio, formerly referred to as Portfolio 3A. It includes optimization of the Castroville Seawater Intrusion Project to eliminate roughly 5,000 acre-feet per year of supplemental groundwater pumping; a small-scale Brackish Groundwater Restoration project that could combine direct delivery and injection; and East Side Recharge Basins with a proposed 100-cubic-foot-per-second diversion. Staff also described four accompanying management actions, including deep-aquifer demand management, a seawater intrusion response plan and rural residential water-efficiency measures. The projects were modeled to come online around 2036, with sustainability targeted by 2040. The portfolio can change as alternatives are evaluated. A committee member cited possible costs of $1.07 billion and $74.3 million per year. Staff described agency-wide cost estimates as high-level and said decisions about who pays for individual projects remain to be made.
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