ALBUQUERQUE BERNALILLO COUNTY
WATER UTILITY AUTHORITY
BILL NO. R-18-19 |
RESOLUTION
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Authorizing a Joint Funding Agreement With the United States Geological Survey for Monitoring and Analysis of Surface Water and Groundwater
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WHEREAS, the United State Geological Survey (USGS) Water Resources Mission is to provide reliable, impartial, timely information that is needed to understand the Nation’s water resources; and
WHEREAS, the mission of the Water Authority is to provide a resilient, sustainable water supply to the customers in its service area; and
WHEREAS, the Water Authority Board adopted the update to the Water Resources Management Strategy: Water 2120 on September 21, 2016; and
WHEREAS, an understanding of our groundwater and surface water supplies both in terms of quality and quantity is critical to the implementation of Water 2120; and
WHEREAS, the Water Authority has been working with the USGS for several decades to develop a record and analysis of the quality and quantity of water resources in the Middle Rio Grande.
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE WATER AUTHORITY:
Section 1. The Water Authority is authorized to enter into a Joint Funding Agreement beginning July 1, 2018 with the United States Geological Survey whereby the Water Authority will provide up to $1,187,459 and the USGS will provide up to $971,554 over the next five years for streamflow monitoring, surface water quality monitoring, groundwater level monitoring, aquifer compaction and recovery monitoring, groundwater level change and groundwater level maps, groundwater level monitoring network optimization, microgravity monitoring of groundwater level changes and analysis of historic and current surface water quality data