Groundwater Sustainability Plan
5-022.14 KERN COUNTY
Multiple GSPs
GSP Local ID: Kern County Subbasin KRGSA GSP
Base Information
- 07/29/2022 Resubmission
- 01/28/2020
- 08/01/2022 Resubmission
- 02/19/2020
- 09/30/2022 Resubmission
- 06/03/2020
6 GSPs — Coordination Agreement Preview Page
Point of Contact: Kristin Pittack (kpittack@rinconconsultants.com)
Uploaded Coordination Agreement:
Coordination Agreement with Appendixes 1-2020.pdf (38.8MB)
Uploaded Coordination Agreement Resubmission:
Amended Coordination Agreement 7-27-2022.pdf (458.2MB)
Art Chianello (Kern River GSA)
1000 Buena Vista Road
661-326-3715
achianel@bakersfieldcity.us
1000 Buena Vista Road
661-326-3715
achianel@bakersfieldcity.us
Incomplete GSP Resubmission Notices
Notice Date: 03/03/2022
Public Hearing Date: 07/07/2022
Groundwater Sustainability Plan (223.1MB)
Elements of the Plan
| File Name | GSP Regulation Element(s) | Uploaded Date & Time |
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| Title | Publication Name | Publish Date | Author(s) | File Name or URL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sustainable for Whom? The Impact of Groundwater Sustainability Plans on Domestic Wells new | UC Davis Center for Regional Change | 2020-01-01 | Bostic, Darcy, Kristin Dobbin, Rich Pauloo, Jessica Mendoza, Michael Kuo, and Jonathan London | |
| Merced Groundwater Sustainability Plan, Groundwater Subbasin No. 5-022.04, Comment Letter new | Comment Letter to Craig Altare, Supervising Engineering Geologist, Department of Water Resources, from Natalie Stork, Senior Engineering Geologist, Chief, Groundwater Management Program, Office of Research, Planning, and Performance | 2021-08-23 | California State Water Resources Control Board | |
| Incomplete Determination of the 2020 Groundwater Sustainability Plans Submitted for the San Joaquin Valley – Kern County Subbasin, to Patricia Poire, Kern County Subbasin Point of Contact from Paul Gosselin, Deputy Director of Sustainable Groundwater Management new | DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management | 2022-01-28 | California Department of Water Resources | |
| SGMA Data Viewer, Vertical Displacement Data, SOPAC GPS Stations ARM1 and ARM2 new | SGMA Data Viewer | 2021-01-22 | California Department of Water Resources | |
| Domestic Well Reliability: Evaluating Supply Interruptions from Groundwater Overdraft, Estimating Costs and Managing Economic Externalities new | Hydrogeology Journal | 2019-02-22 | Gailey, Robert M., Jay R. Lund, and Josue Medellin-Azuara | |
| Development and Application of a 1D Compaction model to Understand 65 Years of Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley new | Water Resources Research | 2022-05-16 | Lees, Matthew, Knight, Rosemary, and Smith, Ryan | |
| Amendment to Engineering Report, East Niles Community Services District, North Weedpatch Highway Water System Consolidation Project | 2019-04-01 | AECOM | ||
| Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company, prepared for Kern Delta Water District, Kern County, California | 1975-09-01 | Boyle Engineering Corporation (Boyle) | ||
| Draft Technical Report on Effects of Kern River Flow and Municipal Water Program on Surface Water Flow and Recharge to Groundwater, Bakersfield, California, prepared for the City of Bakersfield | 2012-06-12 | Daniel B. Stephens & Associates (DBS&A) | ||
| Subsidence Simulation & Management, USGS, Presentation to California Groundwater Resources Association (GRA) | 2014-09-01 | Faunt, C. and Phillips, S. | ||
| , 1993-2016 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County, Prepared by Irrigation Training and Research Center, California Polytechnic State University, Prepared for Kern Groundwater Authority | 2018-06-01 | Howes, D.J. | ||
| Initial Water Management Plan, Final Adopted | 2001-10-25 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| Water Supply Report, 1998 | 2002-03-01 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| Water Supply Report, 1999 | 2003-05-01 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| Water Supply Report, 2000 | 2005-11-01 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| Water Supply Report: 2001, Final Adopted | 2008-01-01 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| 2nd Draft 2005-2006 Kern Fan Area Operations and Monitoring Report | 2011-10-01 | Kern Fan Monitoring Committee (KFMC) | ||
| 2011 – 2016 Kern Fan Area Operations and Monitoring Report | 2018-01-01 | Kern Fan Monitoring Committee (KFMC) | ||
| Draft Environmental Impact Report, Kern River Channel Maintenance Program, SCH. #85062409, submitted to the City of Bakersfield | 1985-10-01 | Quad Consultants | ||
| Arsenic Mitigation Project, Preliminary Design Report, Greenfield County Water District | 2016-03-01 | Quad Knopf | ||
| Adoption of Policy Entitled “Sources of Drinking Water”, Resolution 88-63, as revised by Resolution No. 2006-0008 | 2006-02-01 | California State Water Resources Control Board, (SWRCB) | ||
| Kern Delta Water District Water Allocation Plan | 2011-09-01 | Todd | ||
| Kern Fan Model Final Report for Kern Fan Monitoring Committee | 2018-02-01 | Todd Groundwater | ||
| Caliente Creek Habitat Mitigation and Groundwater Recharge Feasibility Study, Prepared for Kern County Department of Public Works | 2017-06-01 | AECOM | ||
| Kern Delta Water District, Agricultural Water Management Plan | 2015-12-01 | AECOM | ||
| LA’s Kern sludge farm to stop receiving free water, by Sam Morgen | 2019-07-18 | Bakersfield Californian | ||
| The Cenozoic Evolution of the San Joaquin Valley, California, USGS Professional Paper 1501 | 1991-12-31 | Bartow, J.A. | ||
| Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California, IMAP series 1496, 1:25,000 | 1984-12-31 | Bartow, J.A. | ||
| The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California, Contributions to Stratigraphy, Geological Survey Bulletin 1529-D | 1983-12-31 | Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M. | ||
| Base of Fresh Ground Water – Approximately 3,000 Micromhos–in the Sacramento Valley and Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, California. United States Geological Survey Open File Report WRI 40-73 | 1973-12-31 | Berkstresser, C.F. | ||
| Estimation of ET for Groundwater Models Using the ITRC-METRIC Process. Presented at 2016 NGWA Groundwater Week, Las Vegas, Nevada, December 6-8, 2016 | 2016-12-08 | Burt, C.M. | ||
| Status and Understanding of Groundwater Quality in the Two Southern San Joaquin Valley Study Units, 2005 – 2006; California GAMA Priority Basin Project, USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5218 | 2012-12-31 | Burton, C.A., Shelton, J.L., and Belitz, K. | ||
| Development and calibration of the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim), version 3.02-CG. Bay-Delta Office, California Department of Water Resources | 2013-12-31 | Brush, C. F., Dogrul, E. C., & Kadir, T. N. | ||
| California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) | 2018-12-31 | California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) | ||
| California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) | 2018-12-01 | California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) | ||
| Order RS-2013-0153 NPDES No. CA0083399 Waste Discharge Requirements City of Bakersfield and County of Kern Storm Water Discharges from Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System Kern County | 2013-12-24 | California Regional Water Quality Control Board (RWQCB), Central Valley Region | ||
| Safe Drinking Water Information System, CA Drinking Water Watch, Water System Details, Oildale Mutual Water Company | 2017-05-23 | California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | ||
| A Compilation of Water Quality Goals, 17th Edition, Report prepared by Jon B. Marshack, D.Env., California Environmental Protection Agency | 2016-01-31 | California State Water Resources Control Board, (SWRCB) | ||
| Runoff Coefficient Fact Sheet | 2013-12-31 | California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | ||
| 2015 Urban Water Management Plan, Bakersfield District | 2016-06-30 | California Water Service Company (Cal Water) | ||
| Website | 2016-05-13 | California Water Service Company (Cal Water) | ||
| 2010 Urban Water Management Plan – Bakersfield District | 2011-12-31 | California Water Service | ||
| Consumer Confidence Report – Bakersfield District | 2011-12-31 | California Water Service | ||
| 2014 Storm Water Management Plan, City of Bakersfield and County of Kern | 2015-10-31 | Carollo Engineers | ||
| Historical surface deformation near Oildale, California, USGS Professional Paper 1245 | 1983-12-31 | Castle, Robert O.; Church, Jack P.; Yerkes, Robert F., and Manning, John C. | ||
| Website: Wastewater Treatment Plants | 2018-12-31 | City of Bakersfield | ||
| Metropolitan Bakersfield General Plan, prepared by: City of Bakersfield, County of Kern, (includes updates in 2016) | 2002-12-31 | City of Bakersfield | ||
| Groundwater technical procedures of the U.S. Geological Survey: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques and Methods 1–A1, 151 p. | 2011-12-31 | Cunningham, W.L., and Schalk, C.W., comps. | ||
| Ground-Water Geology and Hydrology of the Kern River Alluvial-Fan Area, California, USGS Open-File Report 66-21 | 2012-06-20 | Dale, R.H., French, J.J., and Gordon, G.V. | ||
| North of the River Mutual Water Company 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-30 | Dee Jaspar & Associates, Inc. | ||
| Oildale Mutual Water Company 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-30 | Dee Jaspar & Associates, Inc. | ||
| Vaughn Water Company 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-30 | Dee Jaspar & Associates, Inc. | ||
| DWR Water Management Planning Tool | 2019-12-31 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| California Aqueduct Subsidence Study. San Luis Field Division, San Joaquin Field Division | 2017-06-30 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| Critically Overdrafted Groundwater Basins | 2016-06-30 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| California Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) Program | 2016-08-04 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin White Wolf Subbasin, Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 | 2018-03-05 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin Kern County Subbasin, Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 | 2006-01-20 | Department of Water Resources, California (DWR) | ||
| California Oil & Gas Fields, Volume 1 – Central California, 499 p. | 1998-12-31 | Division of Oil, Gas, and Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), California Department of Conservation | ||
| Kern River Water Allocation Plan Final Environmental Impact Report, SCH#2011041082, SIR- Supplemental EIR (SEIR) August 1, 2017, prepared for Kern Delta Water District | 2017-12-31 | ESA | ||
| Progress Report: Subsidence in California, March 2015 – September 2016, report to CA Depart. Water Resources | 2016-12-20 | Farr, T. G., Jones, C. E., and Liu, Z | ||
| Groundwater availability of the Central Valley Aquifer, California USGS Professional Paper 1766 | 2009-12-31 | Faunt, Claudia | ||
| Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley, San Joaquin Geological Society abstracts | 1968-02-28 | Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R. | ||
| Land Subsidence in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Circular 1182 | 1999-12-31 | Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., Ingebritsen, S.E. | ||
| Groundwater Salinity in the Southern San Joaquin Valley, American Association of Petroleum Geologists, (AAPG) Bulletin, v. 101, no. 8 | 2017-08-31 | Gillespie, J., Kong, D., and Anderson, S.D. | ||
| Scientific Data for Developing Water Budgets on a Dairy | 2017-03-31 | Harner, J.P., Brouk, M.J., Potts, J., Bradford, B.1 and Smith, J. F. | ||
| Nitrogen Sources and Loading to Groundwater, Technical Report 2, Assessing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water with a Focus on Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley Groundwater, Report for the State Water Resources Control Board Report to the Legislature, Prepared by: Joshua H. Viers, Daniel Liptzin, Todd S. Rosenstock, Vivian B. Jensen, Allan D. Hollander, Alison McNally, Aaron M. King, Giorgos Kourakos, Elena M. Lopez, Nicole De La Mora, Anna Fryjoff-Hung, Kristin N. Dzurella, Holly Canada, Sara Laybourne, Chiara McKenney, Jeannie Darby, James F. Quinn, Thomas Harter (Corresponding Author), Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis | 2012-07-31 | Harter, T., et al. | ||
| Basic Ground-Water Hydrology. U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Water Supply Paper 2220. Third Printing. USGS in cooperation with the North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development | 1984-12-31 | Heath, Ralph C. | ||
| Study and Interpretation of the Chemical Characteristics of Natural Water. Third Edition. United States Geological Survey Water-Supply Paper 2254 | 1989-12-31 | Hem, John | ||
| Land Subsidence in the San Joaquin Valley, California as of 1980, Studies of Land Subsidence, Geological Survey Professional Paper 437-I, prepared in cooperation with the California Department of Water Resources | 1984-12-31 | Ireland, R.L., Poland, J.F., and Riley, F.S. | ||
| Geologic Map of California, Version 2.0 | 2013-12-31 | Jennings, C.W., with modifications by Gutierrez, C., Bryant, W., Saucedo, G., and Wills, C. (Jennings, et al.) | ||
| Tulare Lake Basin Portion of Kern County, Integrated Regional Water Management Plan, Final Update | 2011-11-30 | Kennedy/Jenks Consultants (K/J) | ||
| Planning and Natural Resources Department, Interactive Maps, 2009 Land Use | 2009-12-31 | Kern County | ||
| Improvement District No. 4 Report on Water Conditions 2018 | 2019-02-28 | Kern County Water Agency (KCWA) | ||
| Kern County Public Health Services Department, Environmental Health Services (EHS) Division, Standards and Rules and Regulations for Land Development: Sewage Disposal, Water Supply, and Preservation of Environmental Health | 2010-10-31 | Kern County Public Health Services Department | ||
| Kern Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan | 2019-12-31 | Kern Groundwater Authority | ||
| Kern Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan | 2019-12-31 | Kern Groundwater Authority | ||
| 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-30 | Lamont Public Utility District (LPUD) | ||
| Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California, with James W. Borchers and Michael Carpenter, with support by California Water Foundation | 2014-04-30 | Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers (LSCE) | ||
| A Guide to Water Quality Requirements under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Stanford, Water in the West | 2019-03-31 | Moran, Tara and Belin, Alletta, 2019 | ||
| East Niles Community Services District 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-30 | MKN & Associates | ||
| Bakersfield Monthly Precipitation, 1889-2010 and 2011-2018 data downloads | 2018-03-31 | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) | ||
| SSURGO soil survey on-line map database | 2018-12-31 | Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) | ||
| California Environmental Protection Agency, 2009, Final Public Health Goal for 1,2,3-Trichloropropane in Drinking Water | 2009-08-20 | Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) | ||
| Base of fresh ground water (approximately 3,000 micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California (No. 489) | 1973-12-31 | Page, R. W. | ||
| Geology of the fresh ground-water basin of the Central Valley, California: with texture maps and sections (No. 1401). US Government Printing Office. | 1986-12-31 | Page, R. W. | ||
| Predictions of Future Subsidence Along Friant-Kern Canal in California, Environmental and Engineering Geoscience (1984) xxi (2): 215–228 | 1984-05-31 | Prokopovich, Nikola | ||
| Kern County Water Agency – Improvement District No. 4 (ID4), Urban Water Management Plan 2015 Update, Kern County, CA | 2016-06-30 | Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group (P&P) | ||
| Thesis CSU Bakersfield - Provenance study of the Kern River Formation, within the Kern River Oilfield, Using Detrital Zircon Geochronology | 2014-05-31 | Robbins, Jason | ||
| Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center / California Spatial Reference Center (SOPAC/CSRC) website | 2019-12-31 | Scripps Orbit and Permanent Array Center / California Spatial Reference Center (SOPAC/CSRC) | ||
| Ground-Water Quality Data in the Kern County Subbasin Study Unit, 2006—Results from the California GAMA Program, U.S. Geological Survey in cooperation with the California State Water Resources Control Board, Data Series 337U | 2008-12-31 | Shelton, Jennifer, L. Isabel Pimentel, Miranda S. Fram, and Kenneth Belitz | ||
| Geologic Map of California, Bakersfield Sheet, compiled 1964, State of California, Department of Conservation, Division of Mines and Geology, re-printed in 1975 | 1964-12-31 | Smith, A.R. | ||
| Final Draft City of Bakersfield 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2017-06-30 | Stetson Engineers, Inc. | ||
| Dissolved Arsenic in the Kern Fan, San Joaquin Valley, California: Naturally Occurring or Anthropogenic?, Environmental Geosciences, v. 3, n. 3, pp 143-153 | 1996-12-31 | Swartz, R. J., Thyne, G.D., and Gillespie, J.M. | ||
| Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Guidance for preparing Groundwater Sustainability Plans | 2018-01-31 | The Nature Conservancy (TNC) | ||
| Final Groundwater Management Plan, Kern Delta Water District | 2013-10-11 | Todd Engineers | ||
| Lake evaporation factor for CIMIS | 1982-12-31 | University of California, Davis | ||
| Isabella Lake Dam Safety Modification Project Environmental Impact Statement | 2012-10-31 | U.S. Army Corp of Engineers (USACE) | ||
| Water Science Glossary of Terms (Saline water) | 2013-12-31 | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | ||
| Groundwater Quality in the Kern County Subbasin, California, USGS Fact Sheet 2011-3150 | 2012-06-30 | U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | ||
| Aquifer Exemptions | 2018-12-21 | U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) | ||
| Nitrogen Sources and Loading to Groundwater. Technical Report 2 in: Addressing Nitrate in California’s Drinking Water with a Focus on Tulare Lake Basin and Salinas Valley Groundwater. Report for the State Water Resources Control Board Report to the Legislature. Center for Watershed Sciences, University of California, Davis | 2012-07-31 | Viers, J.H., Liptzin, D., Rosenstock, T.S., Jensen, V.B., Hollander, A.D., McNally, A., King, A.M., Kourakos, G., Lopez, E.M., De La Mora, N., Fryjoff-Hung, A., Dzurella, K.N., Canada, H.E., Laybourne, S., McKenney, C., Darby, J., Quinn, J.F. & Harter, T. | ||
| Bakersfield Airport precipitation | 2018-12-31 | Western Regional Climate Center (WRCC), Desert Research Institute (DRI) | ||
| Groundwater Quality Assessment Report, Kern County, California, prepared for Kern River Watershed Coalition Authority | 2015-02-28 | Provost & Pritchard Consulting Group (P&P, et al.), Land IQ, and Todd Groundwater | ||
| Kern River 2016 Hydrographic Annual Report, prepared for Colin Pearce | 2016-12-31 | City of Bakersfield | ||
| Kern River Flow and Municipal Water Program, Draft Environmental Impact Report with Appendices | 2012-12-31 | City of Bakersfield, DEIR | ||
| A Study of the Base of Fresh Water in the Southern San Joaquin Basin, California, Society of Petroleum Engineers, Inc. | 1992-12-31 | O'Bryan, P.L. |
