The Department of Water Resources (DWR) released a groundwater report as required by the Governor’s January 2014 Drought Proclamation. The report describes the basins with potential water shortages and gaps in groundwater monitoring. A follow-up report will be released before year end that addresses areas where the drought has significant impacts to groundwater resources, and will identify groundwater basins with water shortages, gaps in groundwater monitoring, and provide the latest information on land subsidence and agricultural land fallowing.
One finding shows that of the state’s 515 alluvial groundwater basins, 169 are fully or partially monitored under the California Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) Program, and 40 of the 126 High and Medium priority basins are not monitored under CASGEM.
The DWR Groundwater Basin Report can be accessed here.
For additional information, please contact RCRC Legislative Advocate Kathy Mannion at (916) 447-4806 orkmannion@rcrcnet.org.