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Santa Rosa to partner on feasibility study for groundwater recharge using Martha Way test well after GSA $5.3M award
Summary
The Santa Rosa Plain Groundwater Sustainability Agency received a $5.3 million grant to implement projects from its groundwater plan; staff told the board the grant could fund a feasibility study for aquifer storage and recovery using the Martha Way test well and a Roaner Park site, pending RWQCB permits and right-of-way agreements.
Santa Rosa staff said the Santa Rosa Plain Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) has been awarded $5.3 million to implement projects and studies in the Groundwater Sustainability Plan, including a feasibility study of aquifer storage and recovery that could use the city’s Martha Way test well.
Director Burke and deputy staff described the two-phase feasibility study: first rehabilitate the Martha Way monitoring/test well (cleaning and scrubbing the wellbore); second, conduct a short-duration injection test in which potable water from the city’s distribution system would be introduced, followed by pumping and continuous geophysical monitoring.…
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