Groundwater Sustainability Plan
5-022.02 MODESTO
Base Information
- 07/12/2024 Resubmission
- 01/31/2022
- 07/16/2024 Resubmission
- 02/14/2022
- 09/16/2024 Resubmission
- 04/30/2022
Eric Thorburn (Oakdale Irrigation District)
1205 East F Street
(209) 840-5525
ethorburn@oakdaleirrigation.com
1205 East F Street
(209) 840-5525
ethorburn@oakdaleirrigation.com
Notice Date: 08/10/2021
08/06/2021 - City of Riverbank
08/06/2021 - City of Modesto
08/10/2021 - County of Stanislaus
08/10/2021 - City of Oakdale
08/10/2021 - City of Waterford
08/10/2021 - County of Tuolumne
STRGBA GSA Notice of Intent Letters Cities-Counties.pdf (5.7MB)
Incomplete GSP Resubmission Notices
Notice Date: 03/29/2024
Modesto City Council Oakdale City Council Riverbank City Council Stanislaus County Board of Supervisors Tuolumne County Board of Supervisors Waterford City Council
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Modesto.pdf (131.2kB)
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Oakdale.pdf (131kB)
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Riverbank.pdf (130.5kB)
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Stan Co.pdf (130.6kB)
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Tuo Co.pdf (130.5kB)
- 90 Day Notice_STRGBA GSA & Tuol GSA_3-29-24_Waterford.pdf (130.4kB)
Public Hearing Date: 07/10/2024
Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers Groundwater Basin Association GSA (7/10/24) County of Tuolumne and Tuolumne County GSA (6/18/24) Oakdale Irrigation District (7/2/24) Modesto Irrigation District (7/9/24) City of Modesto (7/10/24) City of Oakdale (7/1/24) City of Riverbank (6/25/24) City of Waterford (6/20/24) Stanislaus County (6/25/24)
Groundwater Sustainability Plan (244.6MB)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Letter to Eric Thorburn, Oakdale Irrigation District, Subject: San Joaquin Valley – Modesto Subbasin – 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plan new | 2024-01-18 | California Department of Water Resources | ||
| Online System of Well Completion Reports (OSWCR) new | 2024-02-01 | California Department of Water Resources | ||
| Water Quality for Agriculture, Chapter 4: Toxicity Problems, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations | FAO Irrigation and Drainage Paper | 1994-01-01 | Ayers, R.S., and Westcot, D.W. | |
| The Cenozoic Evolution of the San Joaquin Valley, California | U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper | 1991-01-01 | Bartow, A. | |
| Irrigation Water Quality Criteria, Irrigation Water Quality Criteria, Fact Sheet No. 0506, Crop Series / Irrigation, Colorado State University Extension | 2014-10-01 | Bauder, T.A., Waskom, P.L., Sutherland, P.L., Davis, J.G. | ||
| Framework for a ground-water quality monitoring and assessment program for California | U.S. Geological Survey Water-Resources Investigations Report | 2003-01-01 | Belitz, K., Dubrovsky, N.M., Burow, K.R., Jurgens, B., and Johnson, T. | |
| Integrated Regional Groundwater Management Plan for the Modesto Subbasin, Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers Groundwater Basin Association | 2005-06-01 | Bookman-Edmonston | ||
| Hydrogeologic Characterization of the Modesto Area, San Joaquin Valley, California | U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report | 2004-01-01 | Burow, K.R., Shelton, J.L., Hevesi, J.A., and Weissmann, G.S. | |
| Status and understanding of groundwater quality in the two southern San Joaquin Valley study units, 2005–2006—California GAMA Priority Basin Project | U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report | 2012-06-19 | Burton, C.A., Shelton, J.L., and Belitz, Kenneth | |
| Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices | Department of Water Resources | 2018-01-01 | California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) | |
| MCL Evaluation for 1,2-dibromo-3-chloropropane (DBCP), Division of Drinking Water and Environmental Management, Final Draft | 1999-11-01 | California Department of Health Services | ||
| California's Groundwater | Bulletin 118 | 2003-10-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | |
| San Joaquin Valley Groundwater Basin, Turlock Subbasin | California's Groundwater Bulletin 118, Groundwater Basin Descriptions | 2006-01-20 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | |
| California Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) Program Procedures for Monitoring Entity Reporting | 2010-12-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater Water Budget | 2016-12-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Monitoring Networks and Identification of Data Gaps | 2016-12-30 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Monitoring Protocols, Standards, and Sites | 2016-12-30 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Sustainable Management Criteria | 2017-11-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Draft 2018 Basin Prioritization Results | 2018-05-18 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development | 2018-07-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| SGMA Climate Change Resources | 2018-01-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| SGMA 2019 Basin Prioritization | 2019-04-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| SGMA Data Viewer | 2019-01-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Draft Handbook for Water Budget Development | 2020-02-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | ||
| Water Management Planning Tool | 2018-01-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) Water Management Planning Tool | ||
| DWR Well Completion Report Database | 2021-01-01 | California Department of Water Resources Well Completion Report Map Application | ||
| OID Water Resources Plan, Summary Report | 2005-11-01 | CH2M Hill | ||
| Final Urban Area General Plan | 2008-10-14 | City of Modesto | ||
| City of Riverbank General Plan, 2002-2025 | 2009-04-01 | City of Riverbank | ||
| Stanislaus County General Plan 2015 | 2016-08-23 | County of Stanislaus | ||
| Type Region of the Ione Formation (Eocene), Central California: Stratigraphy, Paleography, and Relation to Auriferous Gravels | U.S. Geologic Survey Open File Report | 2007-01-01 | Creely, S., and Force | |
| Ground-Water Geology and Hydrology of the Kern River Alluvial-Fan Area, California | U.S. Geologic Survey Open File Report | 1966-06-20 | Dale, R.H., French, J.J., and Gordon, G.V. | |
| 2015 Agricultural Water Management Plan, Oakdale Irrigation District | 2016-03-01 | Davids Engineering, Inc. | ||
| East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition (ESJWQC) | 2018-01-01 | East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition (ESJWQC) | ||
| 2020 Member Annual Report | 2021-01-01 | East San Joaquin Water Quality Coalition (ESJWQC) | ||
| Master Plan, Tuolumne River Regional Park, prepared for the Joint Powers Authority: City of Modesto, City of Ceres, Stanislaus County | 2001-12-01 | EDAW, Inc. | ||
| Advancing Strategic Land Repurposing and Groundwater Sustainability in California | 2021-03-01 | Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) | ||
| Water Availability and Land Subsidence in the Central Valley, California | Hydrogeol J | 2015-11-15 | Faunt, C.C., Sneed, M., Traum, J., Brandt, J.T. | |
| A Path Forward to Repair the Friant-Kern Canal, November 19, A Path Forward to Repair the Friant-Kern Canal — Friant Water Authority | 2018-11-19 | Friant Water Authority (FWA) | ||
| Oakdale 2030 General Plan, prepared for The City of Oakdale | 2013-08-08 | ESA | ||
| Land Subsidence in the United States | U.S. Geological Survey Circular | 1999-01-01 | Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., Ingebritsen, S.E. | |
| Irrigation water salinity and crop production. Farm Water Quality Planning | 2002-01-01 | Grattan, S | ||
| Vulnerability of recently recharged groundwater in principal aquifers of the United States to nitrate contamination | Environmental Science and Technology | 2012-05-15 | Gurdak, J.J., and Qi, S.L. | |
| Source, distribution, and management of arsenic in water from wells, eastern San Joaquin ground-water subbasin | U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report | 2008-10-01 | Izbicki, J.A., Stamos, C.L., Metzger, L.F., Halford, K.J., Kulp, T.R., and Bennett, G.L. | |
| Technical Memorandum, Stanislaus County Hydrologic Model: Development and Forecast Modeling, Stanislaus County | 2017-12-20 | Jacobson James & Associates, Inc (JJ&A) | ||
| Draft remedial investigation feasibility study workplan, City of Modesto Well Field RIFS, Prepared for City of Modesto Utilities Department by JJ&A and Formation Environmental | 2019-04-26 | Jacobson James & Associates, Inc (JJ&A) | ||
| Hydrogeology, water chemistry, and factors affecting the transport of contaminants in the zone of contribution of a public-supply well in Modesto, eastern San Joaquin Valley, California | U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report | 2008-01-01 | Jurgens, B.C., Burow, K.R., Dalgish, B.A., and Shelton, J.L. | |
| Effects of Groundwater Development on Uranium: Central Valley, California, USA | Groundwater | 2009-11-01 | Jurgens, B.C., Fram, M.S., Belitz, K., Burow, K.R., and Landon, M.K. | |
| City of Riverbank 2015 Urban Water Management Plan, Final | 2016-10-17 | KSN Inc. | ||
| Status and understanding of groundwater quality in the central-eastside San Joaquin Basin, 2006: California GAMA Priority Basin Project | USGS Scientific Investigations Report | 2010-01-01 | Landon, M.K., Belitz, K., Jurgens, B.C., Kulongoski, J.T., and Johnson, T.D. | |
| A scale-based framework to understand the promises, pitfalls and paradoxes of irrigation efficiency to meet major water challenges | Global Environmental Change | 2020-10-20 | Lankford, B., Closas, A., Dalton, J., Gunn, E.L., Hess, T., Knox, J.W., Van Der Kooij, S., Lautze, J., Molden, D., Orr, S. and Pittock, J. | |
| Report of Findings: Land Subsidence from Groundwater Use in California | 2014-04-01 | Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers (LSCE), James Borchers, and Michael Carpenter | ||
| Preliminary Geologic Maps Showing Quaternary Deposits of the Ceres, Denair and Montpelier 7 ½ Quadrangles, Stanislaus and Merced Counties, California | United States Department of the Interior Geological Survey Open-file report | 1980-01-01 | Marchand, D.E. | |
| City of Oakdale Urban Water Management Plan, 2010 Update | 2015-07-01 | MCR Engineering | ||
| Historical Season Rainfall | 2021-01-01 | Modesto Irrigation District (MID) | ||
| A Guide to Water Quality Requirements Under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act | Stanford Water in the West | 2019-03-01 | Moran, T. and Belin, A. | |
| Geology and Quality of Water in the Modesto-Merced Area, San Joaquin Valley, California, with a Brief Section on Hydrology. U.S. Geological Survey, prepared in cooperation with the California Department of Water Resources | U.S. Geological Survey, prepared in cooperation with the California Department of Water Resources | 1973-09-01 | Page, R.W. and Balding, G.O. | |
| Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California | USGS Hydrologic Investigations | 1973-01-01 | Page, R. W. | |
| Guide for Data Collection to Calibrate a Predictive Digital Ground-water Model of the Unconfined Aquifer in and Near the City of Modesto, California | U.S. Geologic Survey Water-Resources Investigations report | 1977-02-01 | Page, R. W. | |
| Hydrologic Model of the Modesto Region, California, 1960-2004 | U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report (SIR) | 2015-01-01 | Phillips, S.P., Rewis, D.L., Traum, J.A. | |
| PRISM Climate Group, Oregon State University | 2021-01-01 | PRISM | ||
| Agricultural Water Management Plan, 2015 Update for the Modesto Irrigation District | 2015-12-01 | Provost & Pritchard | ||
| 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 | USGS Data Series | 2008-01-01 | Shelton, J.L., Pimentel, I., Fram, M.S., and Belitz, K. | |
| Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat | Nature Communications | 2018-12-01 | Smith, R., Knight, R., and Fendorf, S. | |
| Soil Service Geographic Database(SSURGO), Natural Resources Conservation Service, United States Department of Agriculture | Web Soil Survey | 2003-01-01 | Soil Survey Staff | |
| Groundwater Information Sheet – Tetrachloroethylene (PCE), Division of Water Quality, GAMA Program | 2017-11-01 | State Water Resources Control Board, State of California (SWRCB) | ||
| Order WQ 2018-002, In the Matter of Review of Waste Discharge Requirements General Order No. R5-2012-0116 for Growers Within the Eastern San Joaquin River Watershed that are Members of the Third-Party Group, Issued by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region | SWRCB/OCC FILES | 2018-01-01 | State Water Resources Control Board, State of California (SWRCB) | |
| 1,2,3-Trichloropropane | 2019-01-01 | State Water Resources Control Board, State of California (SWRCB) | ||
| Geotracker Online Database | 2021-01-01 | State Water Resources Control Board, State of California (SWRCB) | ||
| Geochemical processes controlling transport of arsenic in groundwater, a review of adsorption | Welch, A.H., and Stollenwerk, K.G., eds., Arsenic in groundwater—geochemistry and occurrence: Boston, Kluwer Academic Publishers | 2003-01-01 | Stollenwerk, K.G. | |
| Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, Guidance for Preparing Groundwater Sustainability Plans | 2018-01-01 | The Nature Conservancy | ||
| Identifying GDEs under SGMA, Best Practices for using the NC Dataset | 2019-07-01 | The Nature Conservancy | ||
| Groundwater Characterization and Recharge Study | 2016-06-01 | Todd Groundwater (Todd) | ||
| InSAR Data Accuracy for California Groundwater Basins, CGPS Data Comparative Analysis, January 2015 to October 2020 | 2021-05-18 | Towill, Inc. (Towill) | ||
| 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 | 2012-07-01 | 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. | |
| Geologic Map of the San Francisco-San Jose Quadrangle, California, 1:250,000 | 1991-01-01 | Wagner, D.L., Bortugno, E.J., and McJunking, R.D. | ||
| City of Waterford General Plan Update Vision 2025 | 2007-06-21 | Waterford Planning Department | ||
| Arsenic in groundwater—A review of current knowledge and relation to the CALFED solution area with recommendations for needed research | San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science | 2006-01-01 | Welch, A.H., Oremland, R.S., Davis, J.A., and Watkins, S.A. | |
| Arsenic in ground water of the United States—Occurrence and geochemistry | Ground Water | 2000-07-01 | Welch, A.H., Westjohn, D.B., Helsel, D.R., and Wanty, R.B. | |
| City of Modesto 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-01 | West Yost Associates | ||
| City of Turlock 2015 Urban Water Management Plan | 2016-06-01 | West Yost Associates | ||
| Joint 2020 Urban Water Management Plan, City of Modesto 2020 & Modesto Irrigation District | 2021-06-01 | West Yost Associates | ||
| Northern and Central Delta-Mendota Regions, Groundwater Sustainability Plan | 2019-11-01 | Woodard & Curran (W&C) and Provost & Pritchard (P&P) | ||
| Merced Groundwater Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan | 2019-11-01 | Woodard & Curran (W&C) | ||
| Recharge Characterization for Stanislaus and Tuolumne Rivers Groundwater Basin Association, Memorandum | 2007-05-02 | WRIME | ||
| Summary of the “Natural Communities Commonly Associated with Groundwater” Dataset and Online Web Viewer | 2018-04-01 | California Department of Water Resources (DWR) |
