Scott Valley, Calif. — Tuesday’s Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors meeting will be an opportunity for constituents to provide input on a resolution to create the county’s first groundwater advisory committee.

The draft resolution comes after the recently-approved ordinance allowing for resolutions creating the committees, which are intended to provide input to the board on the groundwater resources of the various basins in the county.

The resolution focuses on the Scott Valley groundwater basin, and in its current form would establish a committee with representatives from defined areas within the basin, as well as representatives from the city of Fort Jones and agricultural organizations, as well as one non-agricultural groundwater user.

Among the many tasks listed for the committee is the authorization to use technical advisors, giving recommendations to the board and the responsibility to “Review, evaluate, and advise the Board on the current state of groundwater in the Scott Valley and on the overall groundwater hydrology of the Scott Valley, including groundwater-surface water connections.”