Wyandotte Creek GSA appoints Davids Engineering for post-grant SGMA delivery
Wyandotte Creek GSA, California · Meeting date: October 15, 2026 · Published: October 16, 2026
The Butte County groundwater agency has approved a master services agreement with Davids Engineering to provide the technical and operational capacity for continuing groundwater-plan implementation after current state grant work concludes. Individual assignments will be issued through task orders tied to board-adopted budgets.
Key points
- The board unanimously approved the professional services agreement with Davids Engineering following an RFP and competitive selection process.
- The consultant will support annual reporting, groundwater monitoring and data management, the next five-year periodic evaluation, and other ongoing SGMA requirements.
- Specific scopes, deliverables, budgets, not-to-exceed amounts and schedules will be set in individual task orders.
- The board authorised the Program Manager to execute task orders that are funded and consistent with the adopted annual budget.
- Staff said the agreement is separate from grant-funded monitoring-well installations that were not fully completed before the March 31, 2026 deadline.
Full report
Wyandotte Creek Groundwater Sustainability Agency has selected Davids Engineering to support the long-term implementation of its Groundwater Sustainability Plan, marking a transition from work largely funded by Department of Water Resources grants to an agency-funded delivery model.
The board unanimously approved the professional services agreement on 15 October, following a request for proposals and competitive selection process. Staff said that, in recent years, much of the agency's SGMA work had been conducted by consultants using grant funds. As those programmes conclude, Davids Engineering will provide the operational and technical capacity needed for continuing plan delivery.
The agreement is structured as a master contract rather than a single defined assignment. Individual task orders will establish the scope of work, deliverables, budget, not-to-exceed amount and schedule for each activity. The board also authorised the Program Manager to execute task orders, provided they are funded and consistent with the board-adopted annual budget for the relevant fiscal year.
Staff identified annual reports to the California Department of Water Resources, groundwater monitoring, data management, ongoing monitoring and reporting obligations, and the next five-year periodic evaluation of the groundwater plan among the work the consultant team could undertake. The contract may also cover agency operational support, with staff citing direct billing of SGMA fees as an example.
The approval came as the GSA also dealt with accounting needed to close out grant-funded expenditure records. The board authorised the interim Program Manager to work with the Butte County Auditor to determine a final adjustment to the fiscal 2025-26 operating budget. Staff said the remaining adjustment would be covered by grant revenues already held in the agency fund and would not affect the agency's fee-setting budget, SGMA regulatory fee, reserves, expenditures or programmes.
During public comment on the Davids Engineering agreement, a speaker asked whether it covered monitoring wells that had been proposed for their site. Staff said the new contract was not related to those wells. It said some wells had been installed with grant funds in February and March 2026, but not all planned work could be completed before the 31 March deadline.
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Source: Board Meeting, Wyandotte Creek GSA