State Intervention GSP

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County

Buena Vista Water Storage District GSA (Exclusive)

Plan Manager Kristin Pittack (Rincon Consultants)
7080 N Whitney Avenue, Suite 101
California
7602235062
kernsubbasinpoc@rinconconsultants.com
https://www.rinconconsultants.com/

List of GSA(s) that collectively prepared the GSP

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 NOTICE TO ADOPT AMENDED GSP_3.14.25 [Mailed to the County and the Cities](6488939.1).pdf (979.4kB)

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 Approved BVWSD September 2025 Board Minutes.pdf (163.4kB)

Plan Content

Groundwater Sustainability Plan (297.2MB)

Elements Guide (66.7kB)

Supporting Information

File Name	GSP Regulation Element(s)	Uploaded Date & Time
Subsidence Studies.zip (755.3MB)	§354.16(e)	10/22/2025 9:56:22

References

Title	Publication Name	Publish Date	Author(s)
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins	Blackwell Scientific Publications	01/01/1995	Ingersoll and Busby
Kern County Population Data	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series	01/01/2018	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
1993-2022 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	01/01/2022	Irrigation Training and Research Center
The Economic Contribution of the Oil and Gas Industry in Kern County	Kern Economic Development Foundation	01/01/2021	Kern Economic Development Foundation
Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Lesson 2: Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons, Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering	Pennsylvania State University	01/01/2023	King, G., PNG 301
Upper Miocene turbidite deposition, Crocker Canyon area, section 18, T. 31 S., R. 22 E., southwest San Joaquin Valley, California	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/01/1988	SC Kiser, JR Bowersox, EE Miller
The Application of Satellite Radar Interferometry to Subsidence Monitoring in the Belridge and Lost Hills Fields, California	Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	01/01/2002	M. van der Kooij; D. Mayer
Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model	Techtonics	12/27/2015	Levandowski, W., and C. H. Jones
Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1969	Lofgren, B.E. and R.L. Klausing
Growth Fault-Bend Folding at Southeast Lost Hills, San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1989	Medwedeff D
Fluvio-deltaic reservoir, South Belridge field, San Joaquin Valley, California	Earth Sciences	01/01/1990	Miller DD, McPherson JG, and TE Covington
Estimated average annual streamflow into the Central Valley of California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Nady, P, and LL Larragueta
National Engineering Handbook	Natural Resources Conservation Service	01/01/2004	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Published Soil Surveys for California	USDA Soil Conservation Service	01/01/2018	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Petroleum Geology	Boston: Allen & Unwin	01/01/1985	North, F.K.
Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1973	Page, R.W.
Geology of the Fresh Ground-Water Basin of the Central Valley, California, with Texture Maps and Sections, Regional Aquifer System Analysis	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Page, R.W.
Ground Water Resources of the Richgrove Area	Geology Report	01/01/1955	Reynolds, H. W. Jr
Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley	Environmental Research Letters	12/29/2023	Rodríguez-Flores et al.
Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th Edition	Academic Press	09/29/2022	Selley
Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat	Nature Communications 9	06/05/2018	Smith, R., Knight, R. & Fendorf, S
Kern National Wildlife Refuge Water Management Plan	United States Bureau of Reclamation	01/01/2011	United States Bureau of Reclamation
Groundwater Subsidence Study Report Concoran Subsidence Bowl San Joaquin Valley, California	Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure	01/01/2017	Amec
Middle Tertiary Basin Development, San Joaquin Valley, California	Geological Society of America Bulletin	05/01/1969	Bandy, O. L., Arnal R. E.
Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1984	Bartow, J.A.
The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M.
Urbanization alters watershed hydrology in the Piedmont of North Carolina	United States Department of Agriculture Southern Research Station	01/01/2011	Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun
Groundwater in the Central Valley, California; a summary report	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1991	Bertoldi and others
Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company	Boyle Engineering Corporation	01/01/1975	Boyle Engineering Corporation
Development and Calibration the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim)	California Department of Water Resources Technical Memorandum	01/01/2016	Brush, CF, EC Dogrul and TN Kadir
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume I North and East Central California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1973	California Division of Oil and Gas
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume II South, Central Coastal and Offshore California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1974	California Division of Oil and Gas
Impact of Drought-related Subsidence on Gas Infrastructure in California	Energy Research and Development Division	01/01/2023	California Energy Commission
Historical Surface Deformation Near Oildale, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Castle, R.O., J.P. Church, R.F. Yates, and J.C. Manning
C2VSimFG Beta model	California Natural Resources Agency	01/01/2018	California Natural Resources Agency
Annual Kern River Hydrographic Reports from 1985 through 2023	Water Resources Department	01/01/1985	City of Bakersfield
Water Quality Control Plan for the Tulare Lake Basin, Third Edition	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	01/01/2018	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference	California Water Commission	01/01/2016	California Water Commission
Draft Amended Groundwater Management Plan, July	Cawelo Water District	01/01/2007	Cawelo Water District
Groundwater Conditions and Storage Capacity in the San Joaquin Valley California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Davis, G.H., Green, J.H., Olmsted, F.H., and Brown, D.W.
Geology of the Breckenridge Mountain quadrangle, California	California Division of Mines	01/01/1953	Dibblee and Chesterman
California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 Interim Update 2016	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Modeling BMP	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
California Aqueduct Subsidence Study	Department of Water Resources, San Luis Field Division	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Resource Guide, DWR-Provided Climate Change Data and Guidance for Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2019 Basin Prioritization Process and Results	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water – An Introduction	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2024	Department of Water Resources
Multiplewell monitoring site adjacent to the North and South Belridge Oil Fields, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2020	Everett, R. R., Brown, A., Gillespie, J. M., Kjos, A., and Fenton, N. C
Rapid subsidence over oil fields measured by SAR interferometry	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	09/01/1998	Fielding, Blom, & Goldstein
Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/14/2020	Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R.
Estimate of Future Friant Division Supplies for use in Groundwater Sustainability Plans	Friant Water Authority	01/01/2018	Friant Water Authority
Corcoran Clay—A Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposit in San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1954	Frink JW and Kues HA
Land Subsidence in the United States	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1999	Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E.
Kern River Hydrology Under Climate Change	GEI Consultants	01/01/2018	GEI Consultants
Analysis of Groundwater Resources for Kern-Tulare Water District	Gillespie, et al	01/01/2022	Gillespie, et al
Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California	Science of the Total Environment, Volume 771	06/01/2021	Haugen et al.
Geology, Hydrology and Quality of Water in the Terra Bella-Lost Hills Area	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1963	Hilton, G.S., R.L. Klausing, and F. Kunkel
United States Census Data	United States Department of Commerce	01/01/2018	United States Department of Commerce
Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2009	United States Geological Survey
Underground Injection Control Program Memorandum of Agreement Between California Division of Oil and Gas and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9	United States Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/1982	United States Environmental Protection Agency
Oversight of California’s Underground Injection Control Program	United State Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/2019	United State Environmental Protection Agency
3D Geologic Modeling of the Southern San Joaquin Basin for the Westcarb Kimberlina Demonstration Project- A Status Report	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	02/24/2009	Wagoner, J.
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California	The University of Chicago Press	01/01/2001	Wakabayashi, John and Sawyer, Thomas L.
Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1989	A. K. Williamson, David E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal - McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Wood and Davis
Geology and Ground-Water Features of the EdisonMaricopa Area, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1964	Wood, P.R. and Dale, R.H.
Geology and Oil Resources of the Elk Hills, California: Including Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1	U.S. Government Printing Office	01/01/1932	Woodring et al
Linking Oil Production to Surface Subsidence from Satellite Radar Interferometry	Stanford University, Geophysics Department	04/01/2001	Xu, Habin, Dvorkin, Jack, and Nur, Amos
Initial Study and Mitigated Negative Declaration for Buena Vista Water Storage District, Northern Area Project	Buena Vista Water Storage District	11/01/2014	Buena Vista Water Storage District
Initial Study and Proposed Mitigated Negative Declaration for Buena Vista Water Storage District, Palms Groundwater Banking Project	Buena Vista Water Storage District	12/01/2015	Buena Vista Water Storage District
Report of Board of Directors of Buena Vistaa Water Storage District to Hon. Edward Hyatt, Jr. State Engineer, Upon District Plan.	Buena Vista Water Storage District	01/01/1927	Buena Vista Water Storage District
An invisible water surcharge: Climate warming increases crop water demand in the San Joaquin Valley’s groundwater-dependent irrigated agriculture	PLOS Water	03/13/2024	Moyers K, Abatzoglou JT, Escriva-Bou A, Medellı ´n-Azuara J, Viers JH

GSP Henry Miller Water District GSA GSP

Base Information

Date Submitted

10/25/2025

Date Posted

10/25/2025

End of Public Comment Period Date

Public Comments

01/08/2026

GSP Initial Notification(s)

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County

Henry Miller Water District GSA (Exclusive)

Plan Manager Kristin Pittack (Rincon Consultants)
7080 N Whitney Avenue, Suite 101
California
7602235062
kernsubbasinpoc@rinconconsultants.com
https://www.rinconconsultants.com/

List of GSA(s) that collectively prepared the GSP

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 NOTICE TO ADOPT AMENDED GSP_3.14.25 [Mailed to the County and the Cities](6488939.1).pdf (979.4kB)

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 HMWD 25-01 Amended GSP Adoption (Fully Executed).pdf (147.3kB)

Plan Content

Groundwater Sustainability Plan (290MB)

Elements Guide (66.7kB)

Supporting Information

File Name	GSP Regulation Element(s)	Uploaded Date & Time
Subsidence Studies.zip (755.3MB)	§354.16(e)	10/23/2025 15:16:38

References

Title	Publication Name	Publish Date	Author(s)
Groundwater Subsidence Study Report Concoran Subsidence Bowl San Joaquin Valley, California	Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure	01/01/2017	Amec
Middle Tertiary Basin Development, San Joaquin Valley, California	Geological Society of America Bulletin	05/01/1969	Bandy, O. L., Arnal R. E.
Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1984	Bartow, J.A.
The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M.
Urbanization alters watershed hydrology in the Piedmont of North Carolina	United States Department of Agriculture Southern Research Station	01/01/2011	Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun
Groundwater in the Central Valley, California; a summary report	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1991	Bertoldi and others
Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company	Boyle Engineering Corporation	01/01/1975	Boyle Engineering Corporation
Development and Calibration the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim)	California Department of Water Resources Technical Memorandum	01/01/2016	Brush, CF, EC Dogrul and TN Kadir
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume I North and East Central California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1973	California Division of Oil and Gas
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume II South, Central Coastal and Offshore California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1974	California Division of Oil and Gas
Impact of Drought-related Subsidence on Gas Infrastructure in California	Energy Research and Development Division	01/01/2023	California Energy Commission
Historical Surface Deformation Near Oildale, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Castle, R.O., J.P. Church, R.F. Yates, and J.C. Manning
C2VSimFG Beta model	California Natural Resources Agency	01/01/2018	California Natural Resources Agency
Annual Kern River Hydrographic Reports from 1985 through 2023	Water Resources Department	01/01/1985	City of Bakersfield
Water Quality Control Plan for the Tulare Lake Basin, Third Edition	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	01/01/2018	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference	California Water Commission	01/01/2016	California Water Commission
Draft Amended Groundwater Management Plan, July	Cawelo Water District	01/01/2007	Cawelo Water District
Groundwater Conditions and Storage Capacity in the San Joaquin Valley California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Davis, G.H., Green, J.H., Olmsted, F.H., and Brown, D.W.
Geology of the Breckenridge Mountain quadrangle, California	California Division of Mines	01/01/1953	Dibblee and Chesterman
California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 Interim Update 2016	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Modeling BMP	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
California Aqueduct Subsidence Study	Department of Water Resources, San Luis Field Division	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Resource Guide, DWR-Provided Climate Change Data and Guidance for Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2019 Basin Prioritization Process and Results	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1969	Lofgren, B.E. and R.L. Klausing
Growth Fault-Bend Folding at Southeast Lost Hills, San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1989	Medwedeff D
Fluvio-deltaic reservoir, South Belridge field, San Joaquin Valley, California	Earth Sciences	01/01/1990	Miller DD, McPherson JG, and TE Covington
Estimated average annual streamflow into the Central Valley of California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Nady, P, and LL Larragueta
National Engineering Handbook	Natural Resources Conservation Service	01/01/2004	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Published Soil Surveys for California	USDA Soil Conservation Service	01/01/2018	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Petroleum Geology	Boston: Allen & Unwin	01/01/1985	North, F.K.
Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1973	Page, R.W.
Geology of the Fresh Ground-Water Basin of the Central Valley, California, with Texture Maps and Sections, Regional Aquifer System Analysis	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Page, R.W.
Ground Water Resources of the Richgrove Area	Geology Report	01/01/1955	Reynolds, H. W. Jr
Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley	Environmental Research Letters	12/29/2023	Rodríguez-Flores et al.
Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th Edition	Academic Press	09/29/2022	Selley
Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat	Nature Communications 9	06/05/2018	Smith, R., Knight, R. & Fendorf, S
Kern National Wildlife Refuge Water Management Plan	United States Bureau of Reclamation	01/01/2011	United States Bureau of Reclamation
United States Census Data	United States Department of Commerce	01/01/2018	United States Department of Commerce
Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2009	United States Geological Survey
Underground Injection Control Program Memorandum of Agreement Between California Division of Oil and Gas and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9	United States Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/1982	United States Environmental Protection Agency
Oversight of California’s Underground Injection Control Program	United State Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/2019	United State Environmental Protection Agency
3D Geologic Modeling of the Southern San Joaquin Basin for the Westcarb Kimberlina Demonstration Project- A Status Report	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	02/24/2009	Wagoner, J.
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California	The University of Chicago Press	01/01/2001	Wakabayashi, John and Sawyer, Thomas L.
Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1989	A. K. Williamson, David E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal - McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Wood and Davis
Geology and Ground-Water Features of the EdisonMaricopa Area, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1964	Wood, P.R. and Dale, R.H.
Geology and Oil Resources of the Elk Hills, California: Including Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1	U.S. Government Printing Office	01/01/1932	Woodring et al
Linking Oil Production to Surface Subsidence from Satellite Radar Interferometry	Stanford University, Geophysics Department	04/01/2001	Xu, Habin, Dvorkin, Jack, and Nur, Amos
Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water – An Introduction	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2024	Department of Water Resources
Multiplewell monitoring site adjacent to the North and South Belridge Oil Fields, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2020	Everett, R. R., Brown, A., Gillespie, J. M., Kjos, A., and Fenton, N. C
Rapid subsidence over oil fields measured by SAR interferometry	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	09/01/1998	Fielding, Blom, & Goldstein
Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/14/2020	Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R.
Estimate of Future Friant Division Supplies for use in Groundwater Sustainability Plans	Friant Water Authority	01/01/2018	Friant Water Authority
Corcoran Clay—A Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposit in San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1954	Frink JW and Kues HA
Land Subsidence in the United States	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1999	Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E.
Kern River Hydrology Under Climate Change	GEI Consultants	01/01/2018	GEI Consultants
Analysis of Groundwater Resources for Kern-Tulare Water District	Gillespie, et al	01/01/2022	Gillespie, et al
Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California	Science of the Total Environment, Volume 771	06/01/2021	Haugen et al.
Geology, Hydrology and Quality of Water in the Terra Bella-Lost Hills Area	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1963	Hilton, G.S., R.L. Klausing, and F. Kunkel
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins	Blackwell Scientific Publications	01/01/1995	Ingersoll and Busby
Kern County Population Data	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series	01/01/2018	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
1993-2022 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	01/01/2022	Irrigation Training and Research Center
The Economic Contribution of the Oil and Gas Industry in Kern County	Kern Economic Development Foundation	01/01/2021	Kern Economic Development Foundation
Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Lesson 2: Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons, Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering	Pennsylvania State University	01/01/2023	King, G., PNG 301
Upper Miocene turbidite deposition, Crocker Canyon area, section 18, T. 31 S., R. 22 E., southwest San Joaquin Valley, California	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/01/1988	SC Kiser, JR Bowersox, EE Miller
The Application of Satellite Radar Interferometry to Subsidence Monitoring in the Belridge and Lost Hills Fields, California	Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	01/01/2002	M. van der Kooij; D. Mayer
Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model	Techtonics	12/27/2015	Levandowski, W., and C. H. Jones

GSP Kern-Tulare Water District GSA GSP

Base Information

Date Submitted

10/25/2025

Date Posted

10/25/2025

End of Public Comment Period Date

Public Comments

01/08/2026

GSP Initial Notification(s)

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County

Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County (Exclusive)

Plan Manager Kristin Pittack (Rincon Consultants)
7080 N Whitney Avenue, Suite 101
California
7602235062
kernsubbasinpoc@rinconconsultants.com
https://www.rinconconsultants.com/

List of GSA(s) that collectively prepared the GSP

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 NOTICE TO ADOPT AMENDED GSP_3.14.25 [Mailed to the County and the Cities](6488939.1).pdf (979.4kB)

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 KTWD 1500_001.pdf (104.1kB)

Plan Content

Groundwater Sustainability Plan (285.9MB)

Elements Guide (67kB)

Supporting Information

File Name	GSP Regulation Element(s)	Uploaded Date & Time
Subsidence Studies.zip (755.3MB)	§354.16(e)	10/23/2025 15:41:44

References

Title	Publication Name	Publish Date	Author(s)
Geology of the Breckenridge Mountain quadrangle, California	California Division of Mines	01/01/1953	Dibblee and Chesterman
California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 Interim Update 2016	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Modeling BMP	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
California Aqueduct Subsidence Study	Department of Water Resources, San Luis Field Division	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Resource Guide, DWR-Provided Climate Change Data and Guidance for Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2019 Basin Prioritization Process and Results	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water – An Introduction	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2024	Department of Water Resources
Multiplewell monitoring site adjacent to the North and South Belridge Oil Fields, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2020	Everett, R. R., Brown, A., Gillespie, J. M., Kjos, A., and Fenton, N. C
Rapid subsidence over oil fields measured by SAR interferometry	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	09/01/1998	Fielding, Blom, & Goldstein
Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/14/2020	Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R.
Estimate of Future Friant Division Supplies for use in Groundwater Sustainability Plans	Friant Water Authority	01/01/2018	Friant Water Authority
Corcoran Clay—A Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposit in San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1954	Frink JW and Kues HA
Land Subsidence in the United States	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1999	Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E.
Kern River Hydrology Under Climate Change	GEI Consultants	01/01/2018	GEI Consultants
Analysis of Groundwater Resources for Kern-Tulare Water District	Gillespie, et al	01/01/2022	Gillespie, et al
Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California	Science of the Total Environment, Volume 771	06/01/2021	Haugen et al.
Geology, Hydrology and Quality of Water in the Terra Bella-Lost Hills Area	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1963	Hilton, G.S., R.L. Klausing, and F. Kunkel
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins	Blackwell Scientific Publications	01/01/1995	Ingersoll and Busby
Kern County Population Data	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series	01/01/2018	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
1993-2022 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	01/01/2022	Irrigation Training and Research Center
The Economic Contribution of the Oil and Gas Industry in Kern County	Kern Economic Development Foundation	01/01/2021	Kern Economic Development Foundation
Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Lesson 2: Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons, Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering	Pennsylvania State University	01/01/2023	King, G., PNG 301
Upper Miocene turbidite deposition, Crocker Canyon area, section 18, T. 31 S., R. 22 E., southwest San Joaquin Valley, California	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/01/1988	SC Kiser, JR Bowersox, EE Miller
The Application of Satellite Radar Interferometry to Subsidence Monitoring in the Belridge and Lost Hills Fields, California	Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	01/01/2002	M. van der Kooij; D. Mayer
Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model	Techtonics	12/27/2015	Levandowski, W., and C. H. Jones
Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1969	Lofgren, B.E. and R.L. Klausing
Growth Fault-Bend Folding at Southeast Lost Hills, San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1989	Medwedeff D
Fluvio-deltaic reservoir, South Belridge field, San Joaquin Valley, California	Earth Sciences	01/01/1990	Miller DD, McPherson JG, and TE Covington
Estimated average annual streamflow into the Central Valley of California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Nady, P, and LL Larragueta
National Engineering Handbook	Natural Resources Conservation Service	01/01/2004	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Published Soil Surveys for California	USDA Soil Conservation Service	01/01/2018	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Petroleum Geology	Boston: Allen & Unwin	01/01/1985	North, F.K.
Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1973	Page, R.W.
Geology of the Fresh Ground-Water Basin of the Central Valley, California, with Texture Maps and Sections, Regional Aquifer System Analysis	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Page, R.W.
Ground Water Resources of the Richgrove Area	Geology Report	01/01/1955	Reynolds, H. W. Jr
Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley	Environmental Research Letters	12/29/2023	Rodríguez-Flores et al.
Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th Edition	Academic Press	09/29/2022	Selley
Groundwater Subsidence Study Report Concoran Subsidence Bowl San Joaquin Valley, California	Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure	01/01/2017	Amec
Middle Tertiary Basin Development, San Joaquin Valley, California	Geological Society of America Bulletin	05/01/1969	Bandy, O. L., Arnal R. E.
Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1984	Bartow, J.A.
The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M.
Urbanization alters watershed hydrology in the Piedmont of North Carolina	United States Department of Agriculture Southern Research Station	01/01/2011	Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun
Groundwater in the Central Valley, California; a summary report	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1991	Bertoldi and others
Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company	Boyle Engineering Corporation	01/01/1975	Boyle Engineering Corporation
Development and Calibration the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim)	California Department of Water Resources Technical Memorandum	01/01/2016	Brush, CF, EC Dogrul and TN Kadir
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume I North and East Central California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1973	California Division of Oil and Gas
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume II South, Central Coastal and Offshore California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1974	California Division of Oil and Gas
Impact of Drought-related Subsidence on Gas Infrastructure in California	Energy Research and Development Division	01/01/2023	California Energy Commission
Historical Surface Deformation Near Oildale, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Castle, R.O., J.P. Church, R.F. Yates, and J.C. Manning
C2VSimFG Beta model	California Natural Resources Agency	01/01/2018	California Natural Resources Agency
Annual Kern River Hydrographic Reports from 1985 through 2023	Water Resources Department	01/01/1985	City of Bakersfield
Water Quality Control Plan for the Tulare Lake Basin, Third Edition	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	01/01/2018	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference	California Water Commission	01/01/2016	California Water Commission
Draft Amended Groundwater Management Plan, July	Cawelo Water District	01/01/2007	Cawelo Water District
Groundwater Conditions and Storage Capacity in the San Joaquin Valley California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Davis, G.H., Green, J.H., Olmsted, F.H., and Brown, D.W.
Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat	Nature Communications 9	06/05/2018	Smith, R., Knight, R. & Fendorf, S
Kern National Wildlife Refuge Water Management Plan	United States Bureau of Reclamation	01/01/2011	United States Bureau of Reclamation
United States Census Data	United States Department of Commerce	01/01/2018	United States Department of Commerce
Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2009	United States Geological Survey
Underground Injection Control Program Memorandum of Agreement Between California Division of Oil and Gas and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9	United States Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/1982	United States Environmental Protection Agency
Oversight of California’s Underground Injection Control Program	United State Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/2019	United State Environmental Protection Agency
3D Geologic Modeling of the Southern San Joaquin Basin for the Westcarb Kimberlina Demonstration Project- A Status Report	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	02/24/2009	Wagoner, J.
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California	The University of Chicago Press	01/01/2001	Wakabayashi, John and Sawyer, Thomas L.
Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1989	A. K. Williamson, David E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal - McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Wood and Davis
Geology and Ground-Water Features of the EdisonMaricopa Area, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1964	Wood, P.R. and Dale, R.H.
Geology and Oil Resources of the Elk Hills, California: Including Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1	U.S. Government Printing Office	01/01/1932	Woodring et al
Linking Oil Production to Surface Subsidence from Satellite Radar Interferometry	Stanford University, Geophysics Department	04/01/2001	Xu, Habin, Dvorkin, Jack, and Nur, Amos

GSP Olcese Water District GSA GSP

Base Information

Date Submitted

10/25/2025

Date Posted

10/25/2025

End of Public Comment Period Date

Public Comments

01/08/2026

GSP Initial Notification(s)

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County

Olcese Water District GSA (Exclusive)

Plan Manager Kristin Pittack (Rincon Consultants)
7080 N Whitney Avenue, Suite 101
California
7602235062
kernsubbasinpoc@rinconconsultants.com
https://www.rinconconsultants.com/

List of GSA(s) that collectively prepared the GSP

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 NOTICE TO ADOPT AMENDED GSP_3.14.25 [Mailed to the County and the Cities](6488939.1).pdf (979.4kB)

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 2025-08-18_OWD Meeting Minutes.pdf (151.7kB)

Plan Content

Groundwater Sustainability Plan (0B)

Elements Guide (66.3kB)

Supporting Information

File Name	GSP Regulation Element(s)	Uploaded Date & Time
Subsidence Studies.zip (755.3MB)	§354.16(e)	10/23/2025 17:39:07

References

Title	Publication Name	Publish Date	Author(s)
Groundwater Subsidence Study Report Concoran Subsidence Bowl San Joaquin Valley, California	Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure	01/01/2017	Amec
Middle Tertiary Basin Development, San Joaquin Valley, California	Geological Society of America Bulletin	05/01/1969	Bandy, O. L., Arnal R. E.
Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1984	Bartow, J.A.
The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M.
Urbanization alters watershed hydrology in the Piedmont of North Carolina	United States Department of Agriculture Southern Research Station	01/01/2011	Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun
Groundwater in the Central Valley, California; a summary report	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1991	Bertoldi and others
Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company	Boyle Engineering Corporation	01/01/1975	Boyle Engineering Corporation
Development and Calibration the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim)	California Department of Water Resources Technical Memorandum	01/01/2016	Brush, CF, EC Dogrul and TN Kadir
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume I North and East Central California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1973	California Division of Oil and Gas
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume II South, Central Coastal and Offshore California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1974	California Division of Oil and Gas
Impact of Drought-related Subsidence on Gas Infrastructure in California	Energy Research and Development Division	01/01/2023	California Energy Commission
Historical Surface Deformation Near Oildale, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Castle, R.O., J.P. Church, R.F. Yates, and J.C. Manning
C2VSimFG Beta model	California Natural Resources Agency	01/01/2018	California Natural Resources Agency
Annual Kern River Hydrographic Reports from 1985 through 2023	Water Resources Department	01/01/1985	City of Bakersfield
Water Quality Control Plan for the Tulare Lake Basin, Third Edition	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	01/01/2018	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference	California Water Commission	01/01/2016	California Water Commission
Draft Amended Groundwater Management Plan, July	Cawelo Water District	01/01/2007	Cawelo Water District
Groundwater Conditions and Storage Capacity in the San Joaquin Valley California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Davis, G.H., Green, J.H., Olmsted, F.H., and Brown, D.W.
Geology of the Breckenridge Mountain quadrangle, California	California Division of Mines	01/01/1953	Dibblee and Chesterman
California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 Interim Update 2016	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Modeling BMP	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
California Aqueduct Subsidence Study	Department of Water Resources, San Luis Field Division	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Resource Guide, DWR-Provided Climate Change Data and Guidance for Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2019 Basin Prioritization Process and Results	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water – An Introduction	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2024	Department of Water Resources
Multiplewell monitoring site adjacent to the North and South Belridge Oil Fields, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2020	Everett, R. R., Brown, A., Gillespie, J. M., Kjos, A., and Fenton, N. C
Rapid subsidence over oil fields measured by SAR interferometry	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	09/01/1998	Fielding, Blom, & Goldstein
Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/14/2020	Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R.
Estimate of Future Friant Division Supplies for use in Groundwater Sustainability Plans	Friant Water Authority	01/01/2018	Friant Water Authority
Corcoran Clay—A Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposit in San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1954	Frink JW and Kues HA
Land Subsidence in the United States	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1999	Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E.
Kern River Hydrology Under Climate Change	GEI Consultants	01/01/2018	GEI Consultants
Analysis of Groundwater Resources for Kern-Tulare Water District	Gillespie, et al	01/01/2022	Gillespie, et al
Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California	Science of the Total Environment, Volume 771	06/01/2021	Haugen et al.
Geology, Hydrology and Quality of Water in the Terra Bella-Lost Hills Area	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1963	Hilton, G.S., R.L. Klausing, and F. Kunkel
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins	Blackwell Scientific Publications	01/01/1995	Ingersoll and Busby
Kern County Population Data	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series	01/01/2018	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
1993-2022 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	01/01/2022	Irrigation Training and Research Center
The Economic Contribution of the Oil and Gas Industry in Kern County	Kern Economic Development Foundation	01/01/2021	Kern Economic Development Foundation
Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Lesson 2: Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons, Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering	Pennsylvania State University	01/01/2023	King, G., PNG 301
Upper Miocene turbidite deposition, Crocker Canyon area, section 18, T. 31 S., R. 22 E., southwest San Joaquin Valley, California	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/01/1988	SC Kiser, JR Bowersox, EE Miller
The Application of Satellite Radar Interferometry to Subsidence Monitoring in the Belridge and Lost Hills Fields, California	Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	01/01/2002	M. van der Kooij; D. Mayer
Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model	Techtonics	12/27/2015	Levandowski, W., and C. H. Jones
Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1969	Lofgren, B.E. and R.L. Klausing
Growth Fault-Bend Folding at Southeast Lost Hills, San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1989	Medwedeff D
Fluvio-deltaic reservoir, South Belridge field, San Joaquin Valley, California	Earth Sciences	01/01/1990	Miller DD, McPherson JG, and TE Covington
Estimated average annual streamflow into the Central Valley of California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Nady, P, and LL Larragueta
National Engineering Handbook	Natural Resources Conservation Service	01/01/2004	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Published Soil Surveys for California	USDA Soil Conservation Service	01/01/2018	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Petroleum Geology	Boston: Allen & Unwin	01/01/1985	North, F.K.
Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1973	Page, R.W.
Geology of the Fresh Ground-Water Basin of the Central Valley, California, with Texture Maps and Sections, Regional Aquifer System Analysis	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Page, R.W.
Ground Water Resources of the Richgrove Area	Geology Report	01/01/1955	Reynolds, H. W. Jr
Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley	Environmental Research Letters	12/29/2023	Rodríguez-Flores et al.
Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th Edition	Academic Press	09/29/2022	Selley
Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat	Nature Communications 9	06/05/2018	Smith, R., Knight, R. & Fendorf, S
Kern National Wildlife Refuge Water Management Plan	United States Bureau of Reclamation	01/01/2011	United States Bureau of Reclamation
United States Census Data	United States Department of Commerce	01/01/2018	United States Department of Commerce
Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2009	United States Geological Survey
Underground Injection Control Program Memorandum of Agreement Between California Division of Oil and Gas and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9	United States Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/1982	United States Environmental Protection Agency
Oversight of California’s Underground Injection Control Program	United State Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/2019	United State Environmental Protection Agency
3D Geologic Modeling of the Southern San Joaquin Basin for the Westcarb Kimberlina Demonstration Project- A Status Report	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	02/24/2009	Wagoner, J.
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California	The University of Chicago Press	01/01/2001	Wakabayashi, John and Sawyer, Thomas L.
Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1989	A. K. Williamson, David E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal - McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Wood and Davis
Geology and Ground-Water Features of the EdisonMaricopa Area, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1964	Wood, P.R. and Dale, R.H.
Geology and Oil Resources of the Elk Hills, California: Including Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1	U.S. Government Printing Office	01/01/1932	Woodring et al
Linking Oil Production to Surface Subsidence from Satellite Radar Interferometry	Stanford University, Geophysics Department	04/01/2001	Xu, Habin, Dvorkin, Jack, and Nur, Amos

GSP Semitropic Water Storage District GSA GSP

Base Information

Date Submitted

10/25/2025

Date Posted

10/25/2025

End of Public Comment Period Date

Public Comments

01/08/2026

GSP Initial Notification(s)

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County

Semitropic Water Storage District GSA (Exclusive)

Plan Manager Kristin Pittack (Rincon Consultants)
7080 N Whitney Avenue, Suite 101
California
7602235062
kernsubbasinpoc@rinconconsultants.com
https://www.rinconconsultants.com/

List of GSA(s) that collectively prepared the GSP

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 NOTICE TO ADOPT AMENDED GSP_3.14.25 [Mailed to the County and the Cities](6488939.1).pdf (979.4kB)

Notice announcing the planned adoption of the GSP Notice Date: 09/01/2021 SWSD GSA Minutes - August 13, 2025.pdf (297.6kB)

Plan Content

Groundwater Sustainability Plan (282MB)

Elements Guide (66.8kB)

Supporting Information

File Name	GSP Regulation Element(s)	Uploaded Date & Time
Subsidence Studies.zip (755.3MB)	§354.16(e)	10/24/2025 7:27:51

References

Title	Publication Name	Publish Date	Author(s)
Draft Best Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
California Aqueduct Subsidence Study	Department of Water Resources, San Luis Field Division	01/01/2017	Department of Water Resources
Guidance for Climate Change Data Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Resource Guide, DWR-Provided Climate Change Data and Guidance for Use During Groundwater Sustainability Plan Development	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2018	Department of Water Resources
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act 2019 Basin Prioritization Process and Results	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Chronological Reconstructed Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley Water Year Hydrologic Classification Indices	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2019	Department of Water Resources
Depletions of Interconnected Surface Water – An Introduction	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2024	Department of Water Resources
Multiplewell monitoring site adjacent to the North and South Belridge Oil Fields, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2020	Everett, R. R., Brown, A., Gillespie, J. M., Kjos, A., and Fenton, N. C
Rapid subsidence over oil fields measured by SAR interferometry	Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology	09/01/1998	Fielding, Blom, & Goldstein
Stratigraphy of the West Side Southern San Joaquin Valley	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/14/2020	Foss, C.D. and Blaisdell, R.
Estimate of Future Friant Division Supplies for use in Groundwater Sustainability Plans	Friant Water Authority	01/01/2018	Friant Water Authority
Corcoran Clay—A Pleistocene Lacustrine Deposit in San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1954	Frink JW and Kues HA
Land Subsidence in the United States	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1999	Galloway, D., Jones, D.R., and Ingebritsen, S.E.
Kern River Hydrology Under Climate Change	GEI Consultants	01/01/2018	GEI Consultants
Analysis of Groundwater Resources for Kern-Tulare Water District	Gillespie, et al	01/01/2022	Gillespie, et al
Groundwater development leads to decreasing arsenic concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California	Science of the Total Environment, Volume 771	06/01/2021	Haugen et al.
Geology, Hydrology and Quality of Water in the Terra Bella-Lost Hills Area	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1963	Hilton, G.S., R.L. Klausing, and F. Kunkel
Tectonics of Sedimentary Basins	Blackwell Scientific Publications	01/01/1995	Ingersoll and Busby
Kern County Population Data	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series	01/01/2018	Integrated Public Use Microdata Series
1993-2022 ITRC-METRIC ETc for Kern County	California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo	01/01/2022	Irrigation Training and Research Center
Central Valley Hydrologic Model: Texture Model	United States Geological Survey	01/01/2009	United States Geological Survey
Underground Injection Control Program Memorandum of Agreement Between California Division of Oil and Gas and the United States Environmental Protection Agency Region 9	United States Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/1982	United States Environmental Protection Agency
Oversight of California’s Underground Injection Control Program	United State Environmental Protection Agency	01/01/2019	United State Environmental Protection Agency
3D Geologic Modeling of the Southern San Joaquin Basin for the Westcarb Kimberlina Demonstration Project- A Status Report	Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory	02/24/2009	Wagoner, J.
Stream Incision, Tectonics, Uplift, and Evolution of Topography of the Sierra Nevada, California	The University of Chicago Press	01/01/2001	Wakabayashi, John and Sawyer, Thomas L.
Ground-water flow in the Central Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1989	A. K. Williamson, David E. Prudic, and L.A. Swain
Ground-water conditions in the Avenal - McKittrick area, Kings and Kern Counties, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Wood and Davis
Geology and Ground-Water Features of the EdisonMaricopa Area, Kern County, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1964	Wood, P.R. and Dale, R.H.
Geology and Oil Resources of the Elk Hills, California: Including Naval Petroleum Reserve No.1	U.S. Government Printing Office	01/01/1932	Woodring et al
Linking Oil Production to Surface Subsidence from Satellite Radar Interferometry	Stanford University, Geophysics Department	04/01/2001	Xu, Habin, Dvorkin, Jack, and Nur, Amos
The Economic Contribution of the Oil and Gas Industry in Kern County	Kern Economic Development Foundation	01/01/2021	Kern Economic Development Foundation
Introduction to Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering - Lesson 2: Origin and Occurrence of Hydrocarbons, Professor of Practice, Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering	Pennsylvania State University	01/01/2023	King, G., PNG 301
Upper Miocene turbidite deposition, Crocker Canyon area, section 18, T. 31 S., R. 22 E., southwest San Joaquin Valley, California	San Joaquin Geological Society	01/01/1988	SC Kiser, JR Bowersox, EE Miller
The Application of Satellite Radar Interferometry to Subsidence Monitoring in the Belridge and Lost Hills Fields, California	Intstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers	01/01/2002	M. van der Kooij; D. Mayer
Linking Sierra Nevada, California, uplift to subsidence of the Tulare basin using a seismically derived density model	Techtonics	12/27/2015	Levandowski, W., and C. H. Jones
Land Subsidence due to Ground-Water Withdrawal Tulare-Wasco Area California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1969	Lofgren, B.E. and R.L. Klausing
Growth Fault-Bend Folding at Southeast Lost Hills, San Joaquin Valley, California	American Association of Petroleum Geologists	01/01/1989	Medwedeff D
Fluvio-deltaic reservoir, South Belridge field, San Joaquin Valley, California	Earth Sciences	01/01/1990	Miller DD, McPherson JG, and TE Covington
Estimated average annual streamflow into the Central Valley of California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Nady, P, and LL Larragueta
National Engineering Handbook	Natural Resources Conservation Service	01/01/2004	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Published Soil Surveys for California	USDA Soil Conservation Service	01/01/2018	Natural Resources Conservation Service
Petroleum Geology	Boston: Allen & Unwin	01/01/1985	North, F.K.
Base of Fresh Ground Water (Approximately 3,000 Micromhos) in the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1973	Page, R.W.
Geology of the Fresh Ground-Water Basin of the Central Valley, California, with Texture Maps and Sections, Regional Aquifer System Analysis	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Page, R.W.
Ground Water Resources of the Richgrove Area	Geology Report	01/01/1955	Reynolds, H. W. Jr
Drivers of domestic wells vulnerability during droughts in California’s Central Valley	Environmental Research Letters	12/29/2023	Rodríguez-Flores et al.
Elements of Petroleum Geology, 4th Edition	Academic Press	09/29/2022	Selley
Overpumping leads to California groundwater arsenic threat	Nature Communications 9	06/05/2018	Smith, R., Knight, R. & Fendorf, S
Kern National Wildlife Refuge Water Management Plan	United States Bureau of Reclamation	01/01/2011	United States Bureau of Reclamation
United States Census Data	United States Department of Commerce	01/01/2018	United States Department of Commerce
Groundwater Subsidence Study Report Concoran Subsidence Bowl San Joaquin Valley, California	Amec Foster Wheeler Environment & Infrastructure	01/01/2017	Amec
Middle Tertiary Basin Development, San Joaquin Valley, California	Geological Society of America Bulletin	05/01/1969	Bandy, O. L., Arnal R. E.
Geologic Map and Cross Sections of the Southeastern Margin of the San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1984	Bartow, J.A.
The Kern River Formation, Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1983	Bartow, J.A. and Pittman, G.M.
Urbanization alters watershed hydrology in the Piedmont of North Carolina	United States Department of Agriculture Southern Research Station	01/01/2011	Johnny Boggs, Ge Sun
Groundwater in the Central Valley, California; a summary report	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1991	Bertoldi and others
Engineering Report Setting Forth a Plan of Works for Acquisition of Kern Island Water Company	Boyle Engineering Corporation	01/01/1975	Boyle Engineering Corporation
Development and Calibration the California Central Valley Groundwater-Surface Water Simulation Model (C2VSim)	California Department of Water Resources Technical Memorandum	01/01/2016	Brush, CF, EC Dogrul and TN Kadir
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume I North and East Central California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1973	California Division of Oil and Gas
California Oil and Gas Fields, Volume II South, Central Coastal and Offshore California	California Division of Oil and Gas	01/01/1974	California Division of Oil and Gas
Impact of Drought-related Subsidence on Gas Infrastructure in California	Energy Research and Development Division	01/01/2023	California Energy Commission
Historical Surface Deformation Near Oildale, California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1986	Castle, R.O., J.P. Church, R.F. Yates, and J.C. Manning
C2VSimFG Beta model	California Natural Resources Agency	01/01/2018	California Natural Resources Agency
Annual Kern River Hydrographic Reports from 1985 through 2023	Water Resources Department	01/01/1985	City of Bakersfield
Water Quality Control Plan for the Tulare Lake Basin, Third Edition	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board	01/01/2018	Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board
Water Storage Investment Program Technical Reference	California Water Commission	01/01/2016	California Water Commission
Draft Amended Groundwater Management Plan, July	Cawelo Water District	01/01/2007	Cawelo Water District
Groundwater Conditions and Storage Capacity in the San Joaquin Valley California	United States Geological Survey	01/01/1959	Davis, G.H., Green, J.H., Olmsted, F.H., and Brown, D.W.
Geology of the Breckenridge Mountain quadrangle, California	California Division of Mines	01/01/1953	Dibblee and Chesterman
California’s Groundwater, Bulletin 118 Interim Update 2016	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources
Management Practices for the Sustainable Management of Groundwater, Modeling BMP	Department of Water Resources	01/01/2016	Department of Water Resources

GSP Westside District Water Authority GSA GSP

Base Information

Date Submitted

10/25/2025

Date Posted

10/25/2025

End of Public Comment Period Date

Public Comments

01/08/2026

GSP Initial Notification(s)

5-022.14 - Kern-Tulare Water District GSA - Kern County