PROTECT & UNDERSTAND BALLONA FRESHWATER - GRASSROOTSCOALITION LINKS 2022

PROTECT & UNDERSTAND BALLONA FRESHWATER in 2022

What's new...drought, sea level rise, fires raging, temperature rising, confict between "Full Tidal" dig out
of 50%+ of Ballona's 600 acres and Predominantly Freshwater Seasonal Terrestrial Wetlands.

Hopeful Signs:
. FRAN PAVLEY IS NOW ON THE WILDLIFE CONSERVATION BOARD (WCB)

. SUSTAINABLE GROUNDWATER MANAGEMENT ACT (SGMA) 10728 Groundwater Planning; 10727.4 includes:
-- CONTROL OF SALINE/SALTWATER INTRUSION.
-- PROTECTION TO RECHARGE AREAS.

https://saveballona.org/water/2018-ballona-wetlands-protecting-restoring-its-fresh-groundwaters-and-surface-waters.html.

Senator Fran Pavley’s SB 1168….REASONABLE BENEFICIAL USE OF WATER

And all the spider maps show WELL COMPLETIONS THAT ARE WITHOUT THE WATER CODE REQUIRED…
Well Completion Reports that would allow for understanding of the hydrology...WATER CODE 13751 and 13752.

Links to more information:
https://saveballona.org/how-drain-wetland-get-away-it-betrayal-publics-trust-ballona.html
The straight scope on it

https://saveballona.org/water/2018-gc-letter-requests-restart-cancelled-2005-2012-ballona-wetlands-hydrological-study-2012-shelley-luce-cancelled-without-santa-monica-bay-restoration-commissions-knowledge-or-authority.html

Army Corps acknowledges freshwater input to Ballona and their hydrology evaluation was not done due to the
WATER RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT ACT (WRDA) SWITCH….

https://saveballona.org/ballona-wetlands-aquifers-risk-playa-vista-throws-away-millions-gallons-freshwater-every-week.html

https://saveballona.org/jvstop-drying-out-ballona-wetlands-ecological-reserve-stop-playa-vistas-confiscation-and-throw-away-ballonas-freshwater-resources.html

“Restoration needs to begin by determining how t

he hydrology has changed.”