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Groundwater Sustainability Plan

6-012.01 OWENS VALLEY


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01/26/2022
02/07/2022
04/23/2022
Tim Moore (Inyo County Water Department)
135 S. Jackson St.
P. O. Box 337
(760) 878-8834
tmoore@inyocounty.us
Notice Date: 09/09/2021
2021Dec09 GSP Public Hearing.pdf (331.7kB)
Public Hearing Date: 12/09/2021
OVGA Agenda 120921 Final.pdf (247.6kB)
File Name GSP Regulation Element(s) Uploaded Date & Time
Title Publication Name Publish Date Author(s) File Name or URL
CAL FIRE Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) FVEG [ESRI File Geodatabase] 2015-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection.
CAL FIRE Land Ownership geodatabase. 2020-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Fish Slough Digital vegetation map managed through the California Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP). 2014-01-01 Ca Dept. of Fish and Wildlife, CDFW.
Preparation Checklist for GSP Submittal Guidance Document. 2016-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
BMP 1: Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater Monitoring Protocols, Standards, and Sites, December 2016. 2016-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
Land use viewer, map of farmed lands. 2016-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
BMP 5: Best Management Practices for Modeling, December 2016. 2016-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
BMP 6: Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management Criteria, draft November 2017. 2017-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
Guidance Document for Groundwater Sustainability Plan, Stakeholder Communication and Engagement. 2018-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
alifornia’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118. California Department of Water Resources 2020-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
Natural Communities Commonly Associated with Groundwater Dataset Viewer. 2020-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
raft Handbook for Water Budget Development. 2020-01-01 Ca. Dept. of Water Resources.
City of Bishop Water Master Plan. 2011-01-01 City of Bishop
U-Pb dating of zircon in the Bishop Tuff at the millennial scale. Geology, 35(12), 1123–1126 2007-01-01 Crowley, J. L., B. Schoene, and S.A. Bowring.
Regional Transportation Plan and General Plan Update, Draft EIR SCH#2014061029. 2015-01-01 County of Mono
Preliminary Evaluation of the Hydrogeologic System in Owens Valley, California U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report 1988-01-01 Danskin, W. R.
Evaluation of the Hydrologic System and Selected Water-Management Alternatives in the Owens Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2370-H 1998-01-01 Danskin, W. R.
Plant Communities. In J. Smith (Ed.), Sierra East, Edge of the Great Basin 2000-01-01 Howald
The California Gap Analysis Project - Final Report. University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. 1998-01-01 Davis, F. W., Stoms, D. M., Hollander, A. D., Thomas, K. A., Stine, P. A., Odion, D., Borchert, M. I., Thorne, J. H., Gray, M. V., Walker, R. E., Warner, K., & Graae, J.
Regional patterns of community response to changes in water: Owens Valley, California. Ecol. Appl. 12:443-460. 2003-01-01 Elmore, A.J., J.F. Mustard, and S.J. Manning
Decline in alkali meadow vegetation cover in California: the effects of groundwater extraction and drought. J. Appl. Ecol. 43:770-779. 2006-01-01 Elmore, A.J., J.F. Mustard, and S.J. Manning.
he basin characterization model – a regional water balance software package. U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 6-H1, 85 p. 2013-01-01 Flint, L.E., A.L. Flint, and M.A. Stern.
Delineation of Waters of the United States for the Owens Lake Playa. Prepared for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 1996-01-01 Jones and Stokes and Great Basin Unified Air Pollution Control District.
Green Book for the LongTerm Groundwater Management Plan for the Owens Valley and Inyo County 1990-01-01 Inyo County and Los Angeles
Development of a Groundwater Flow Model for the Bishop/Laws Area: Final Report for Local Groundwater Assistance, Grant Agreement No. 4600004129 (54 p.) 2007-01-01 Harrington, R
Hydrogeologic Conceptual Model for the Owners Valley Groundwater Basin (6-12), Inyo and Mono Counties. Prepared for submittal to the California Department of Water Resources. 2016-01-01 Harrington, R
Geology and Water Resources of Owens Valley, California. U.S. Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2370-B 1991-01-01 Hollett, K. J., Danskin, W. R., McCaffrey, W. F., & Walti, C. L.
Assessing the role of climate change and resource management on groundwater dependent ecosystem changes in arid environments with the Landsat archive. Remote Sensing of Env. 185:186-197. 1991-01-01 Huntington, J., K. McGuire, C. Morton, K. Snyder, S. Peterson, T. Erickson, R. Niswonger, R. Carroll, G. Smith, and R. Allen
Multi Jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan, Final Draft (FEMA approved). 2017-01-01 Inyo County and City of Bishop
Fish Slough, a geologic and hydrologic summary, Inyo and Mono Counties, California. U.S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. U.S. Geological Survey Administrative Report. 2010-01-01 Jayko, A. S., & Fatooh, J.
Mapping indicators of groundwater dependent ecosystems in California. 2018-01-01 Klausmeyer, K., J. Howard, T. Keeler-Wolf, K. Davis-Fadtke, R. Hull, and A. Lyons.
An evaluation of California’s special act groundwater districts. Report for the State Water Resources Control Board. 183p. State Water Resources Control Boar 2016-01-01 Langridge, R.B.,S. Sepaniak, & E. Conrad.
Owens Lake Habitat Management Plan. March 2010. 2010-01-01 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
LADWP Urban Water Management Plan 2020-01-01 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Habitat Conservation Plan for Los Angeles Department of Water and Power’s operations, maintenance, and management activities on its land in Mono and Inyo Counties, California. 2015-08-01 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power.
Owens Valley Land Management Plan. 2010-01-01 Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and Ecosystem Sciences.
Plant communities of LADWP land in the Owens Valley: an exploratory analysis of baseline conditions. Inyo County Water Department, 1997-01-01 Manning, S.J.
Vegetation Mapping and Classification of the Jawbone Canyon Region and Owens Valley. Report to Bureau of Land Management 2020-01-01 Menke, J., A. Hepburn, D. Johnson, E. Reyes, A. Glass, J. Evens, S. Winitsky, K. Sikes. 
Task 1 Report: Preliminary Data Collection and Hydrologic Models for the USFilter Tri-Valley Surplus Groundwater Program, Mono County, California 2001-01-01 MHA
Multi-jurisdictional Hazard Mitigation Plan (including the Mono County Community Wildfire Protection Plan), Final. 2019-01-01 Mono County and the Town of Mammoth Lakes
Confining Layer Characteristics Cooperative Study: Final Report. 2003-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
TM: Evaluation of Geophysical Data - Phase I (September 2010). Appendix Q of Final Report on the Owens Lake Groundwater Evaluation Project (2013) 2010-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
Report: Updated Conceptual Model (November 2011) Appendix H of Final Report on the Owens Lake Groundwater Evaluation Project (2013). 2011-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
TM: Evaluation of Geophysical Data - Phase II (June 2011) Appendix R of Final Report on the Owens Lake Groundwater Evaluation Project (2013) 2011-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
TM: Preliminary Updated Conceptual Model (January 2011) Appendix C of Final Report on the Owens Lake Groundwater Evaluation Project (2013) 2011-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
Final Report on the Owens Lake Groundwater Evaluation Project. 2013-01-01 Montgomery Watson Harza
Tiltmeter Evaluation Project River Site Wells, Owens Lake, Inyo County, California Great Basin Unified Pollution Control District. 1999-01-01 Neoponset Geophysical Corp.
Structural Geology and Volcanism of Owens Valley Region, California - A Geophysical Study U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 438. 1964-01-01 Pakiser, L. C., Kane, M. F., & Jackson, W. H.
PRISM Climate Group Oregon State University 1900-01-01 PRISM Climate Group
Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: Guidance for Preparing Groundwater Sustainability Plans The Nature Conservancy, San Francisco, California. 2018-01-01 Rohde, M. M., S. Matsumoto, J. Howard, S. Liu, L. Riege, and E. J. Remson.
Dust Storms From Owens and Mono Valleys, California. Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, CA 1986-01-01 Saint-Amand, P., Mathews, L. A., Gaines, C., and Roger, R.
Soil survey of Benton-Owens Valley area, California, parts of Inyo and Mono Counties, Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Soil Survey Geographic (SSURGO) Database. 2002-01-01 Soil Survey Staff.
Transpiration coefficients for three Great Basin shrubs. Journal of Arid Environments, 49:555–567 2001-01-01 Steinwand, A.L., Harrington, R.F. and Groeneveld, D.P
Water balance for Great Basin phreatophytes derived from eddy covariance, soil water, and water table measurements Journal of Hydrology, 329:595–605. 2006-01-01 Steinwand, A.L., Harrington, R.F. and Or, D.
. Structural Evolution of the East Sierra Valley System (Owens Valley and Vicinity), California: A Geologic and Geophysical Synthesis. Geosciences, 3(2), 176-15. 2013-01-01 Stevens, C. H., Stone, P., & Blakely, R. J.
InSAR Data Accuracy for California Groundwater Basins CGPS Data Comparative Analysis January 2015 to September 2019. 2020-01-01 Towill, Inc.,
InSAR datasets DWR’s SGMA Map Viewer 2021-01-01 InSar
xisting Vegetation Great Basin, 1999–2009, v1 [ESRI File Geodatabase]. MeClellan, CA. 2014-01-01 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture Forest Service.
EPA requirements for quality assurance project plans, March 2001. EPA QA/R-5. EPA/240/B-01/003. 2001-01-01 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Guidance on systematic planning using the data quality objectives process EPA QA/G-4. EPA/240/B-06/001. 2006-01-01 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Owens Basin Wetland and Aquatic Species Recovery Plan, Inyo and Mono Counties. Portland, Oregon. 1998-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation of critical habitat for Astragalus lentiginosus var. piscinensis (Fish Slough Milk-Vetch) Federal Register 70 (10), No. 110. 33774–33795. 2005-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation of critical habitat for the Sierra Nevada Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis sierrae) and Taxonomic Revision; Final Rule. Federal Register 73 45534–45604. 2008-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; designation of critical habitat for the Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog, the Northern District Population Segment of the mountain yellow-legged frog, and the Yosemite toad; final rule. Federal Register 81 9046–59119. 2016-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
National Wetlands Inventory website. U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, Washington, D.C 2018-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Endangered and threatened wildlife and plants; Revised designation of critical habitat for the Western Distinct (sic.) pollution segment of the Yellow billed cuckoo. Federal Register 85 11458-11594. 2020-01-01 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Central Mojave vegetation database. Digital vegetation map managed through the California Vegetation Classification and Mapping Program (VegCAMP) USGS, Western Ecological Research Center 2002-01-01 U.S. Geological Survey.
Groundwater technical procedures of the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 1–A1 2011-01-01 U.S. Geological Survey.
National hydrography dataset, high resolution, v220. Washington D.C. 2016-01-01 U.S. Geological Survey.
General introduction for the “National Field Manual for the Collection of Water Quality Data” (ver. 1.1, June 2018) U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods, book 9, chap. A0, 4 p. 2018-01-01 U.S. Geological Survey.
National Hydrography Dataset 2019-01-01 U.S. Geological Survey.
Identification of Source Water Mixing in the Fish Slough Spring Complex, Mono County, California, USA Hydrology, 6(1), 26. 2019-01-01 Zdon, A., Rainville, K., Buckmaster, N., Parmenter, S., & Love, A. H.
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