Importance of Community Involvement 

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SGMA requires a communications plan to reach and involve the community and stakeholders around the Groundwater Sustainability Plan. The Temescal Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) recognizes that this is a critical aspect of ensuring that this process is transparent, engaging, effective, and fully available to the members of the community. Overall community engagement, which includes involvement of diverse social, cultural, and economic elements of the population within the basin area, helps the Temescal GSA to best consider the full range of interests of all beneficial uses and users of groundwater, as the Plan moves forward. 

The general goals of the Temescal GSA community engagement efforts are to: 

• Inform stakeholders of the GSP development process, including purpose, opportunities and issues, core recommendations, and timeline. 

• Provide meaningful opportunities for stakeholders and the public to learn, ask questions, and provide input.  

• Involve the many diverse communities and stakeholders of Corona, Norco, and Home Gardens, recognizing that different approaches may be needed to reach specific populations like Disadvantaged Communities, and flexibility and adaptation in approach may be required. 

• Ensure a transparent process where stakeholders and the public can understand what important discussions are taking place, how they can participate in them, and how input is being used. 

To do this, the Temescal GSA is producing and distributing informational fact sheets, providing specific website resources on SGMA/GSP, utilizing social and traditional media, and conducting a number of public workshops around key issues and milestones in the GSP preparation. 

Interested community members are encouraged to sign up to receive email updates including notices of upcoming community workshops. The workshop schedule will also be posted on this website.