2024 Second Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan
On November 13, 2024, the Mid-Kaweah GSA Board of Directors adopted the 2024 Second Amended GSP! On November 15, Mid-Kaweah GSA submitted the adopted 2024 Second Amended GSP to the State Water Resources Control Board.
MKGSA Well Inventory Program
The Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKGSA) submitted the 2024 Second Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) to the State Water Resources Control Board(SWRCB) in November 2024. Subsequently, the SWRCB canceled the Kaweah Subbasin Probationary Hearing. The MKGSA GSP described the Well Inventory Program as a program to collect more accurate data on the number and use type of wells in the MKGSA. Currently, MKGSA uses the best available data from the Department of Water Resources (DWR) who sources their information from County records. DWR has a database with all wells drilled in the State of California, but the data has not been regularly updated. The database doesn’t take into account wells have gone dry, been destroyed, been converted to different uses, and paved over. The Kaweah GSAs agreed to use the DWR data for the development of the 2024 Second Amended GSPs, but vowed to collect more accurate data for future analysis.
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For more information, please view the MKGSA Well Inventory Program Flier or contact the Mid-Kaweah GSA.
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2024 GSP Determinations
On March 2nd 2023 Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSAs) in the Kaweah Subbasin received an inadequate determination notice from the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) regarding the submission of the 2022 Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) updates. This inadequate determination shifts primary determination from DWR to the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB). DWR and the SWRCB summarized the deficiencies of the 2022 First Amended GSP in the letters below.
2024 GSP Revisions
The Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKGSA) has been working with the Greater Kaweah GSA and the East Kaweah GSA to address the deficiencies outlined by DWR and the SWRCB. Kaweah Subbasin managers, legal counsel, staff, and consultants have been meeting multiple times weekly to do the technical analysis and revisions to the GSPs required by DWR under SGMA compliance. Provided below are the current revisions to the MKGSA GSP for review.
On October 2, 2024 the MKGSA and the other Kaweah Subbasin GSAs released the drafts of the GSPs for public comment. Below are the public drafts for your review.
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2024 Mitigation Program and Plan
Kaweah Subbasin Mitigation Program Framework establishes minimum requirement for mitigation of wells and critical infrastructure demonstrated to have been adversely affected by declining groundwater levels, land subsidence, and groundwater quality degradation associated with groundwater overdraft. The Mitigation Program Framework applies to all 3 GSAs in the Kaweah Subbasin.
The Mid-Kaweah GSA Mitigation Plan describes a detailed process for mitigating impacts on domestic and small community water system wells adversely affected by declining groundwater levels, land subsidence, and degraded groundwater quality. Unlike the Mitigation Program, the MKGSA Mitigation Plan is GSA-specific.
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