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The California Department of Water Resource is offering free technical assistance for Underrepresented Communities, California Tribes, and Small Farmers through the URCTA Program. The URCTA Program addresses the groundwater water supply and water quality needs, risks, and vulnerabilities for underrepresented communities, California Tribes and Small Farmers in SGMA regulated basins throughout the state.
The URCTA program brings together technical experts such as outreach specialists, hydrologists, hydrogeologists, engineers, specialists fluent in over 25 languages and planners to provide onsite engineering, geologic, hydrologic services as well as planning, coordination and implementation support. To date, the Program has provided direct services to over 80 Tribes, Underrepresented Communities and Small Farmers.
Services the URCTA can provide include:
- Analysis of groundwater conditions, interference, impact (for depletion, land subsidence, groundwater
dependent ecosystem depletion, etc.), and water quality - Analysis of long-term water supply demand, and assistance with facilitating water transfers, groundwater
sustainability matters, water well and pump repairs - 100% design and engineering specifications for water systems (supply, production, distribution, treatment,
and storage, including fire flow requirements)
For further information about the URCTA Program,
please visit www.water.ca.gov/urctaprogram or contact jgray@dudek.com or URCTA@water.ca.gov.