Corralitos – Pájaro Valley
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Corralitos – Pájaro Valley
- Basin Number
- 3-002.01
- SGMA Basin Priority
- High
- Critically Overdrafted
- Yes
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Central Coast
- Counties
- Monterey, Santa Cruz
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: February – Basin BMP update published
2016: Basin boundary modification approved
Bulletin 118 update – Various portions of the original Pajaro Valley Basin were moved to three adjacent subbasins/basins—180/400 Foot Aquifer subbasin (3-004.01), Langley Area Subbasin (3-004.09), and the newly-formed Santa Cruz Mid-County (3-001) basin. A portion of the former Santa Cruz Purisima Formation basin (3-021) was added to this basin. The Pajaro Valley Basin was also reclassified as a subbasin.
Revised Basin boundary description
December 31 – Existing Alternative to GSP plan submitted to DWR
2019: July 17 – Alternative GSP approved by DWR
2021: November 17 – Pajaro Valley Basin Management Plan Groundwater Sustainability Update
At-A-Glance
California Water Library Documents About This Basin
Statement of Findings regarding the Periodic Review and Approval of the Corralitos - Pajaro Valley Subbasin Alternative Groundwater Sustainability Plan
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | June 27th, 2024
Strawberry Case Study: What If Farmers Had to Pay for Water?
New York Times | December 29th, 2023
While American farmers elsewhere have watered their crops by freely pumping the groundwater beneath their land, growers in Pajaro must pay hefty fees for irrigation water
Recharge net metering (ReNeM) is a novel, cost-effective management strategy to incentivize groundwater recharge
Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) | October 18th, 2023
LandFlex Program’s Guidelines
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | December 8th, 2022
LandFlex is a program that will provide $25 million in block grants to local government agencies to grant to farmers who limit agricultural water use. Local government ag
Pajaro Valley Basin Management Plan Groundwater Sustainability Update 2022
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA) | November 17th, 2021
Detection and Measurement of Land-Surface Deformation, Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California, 2015–18
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | October 22nd, 2021
Land-surface deformation (subsidence) caused by groundwater withdrawal is identified as an undesirable result in the Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency’s Basin Manag
Statement of Findings regarding the Approval of the Pajaro Valley Subbasin Alternative
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | June 17th, 2019
Integrated Hydrologic Model of Pajaro Valley, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | September 5th, 2014
Increasing population, agricultural development (including shifts to more water-intensive crops), and climate variability are placing increasingly larger demands on avail
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency Basin Management Plan Update
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA) | February 14th, 2014
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency Revised Management Plan
Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency (PVWMA) | February 14th, 2002
Documentation of Model Input and Output Values for the Geohydrology and Mathematical Simulation of the Pajaro Valley Aquifer System, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | July 14th, 1990
As part of a study of the geology and hydrology of the Pajaro Valley aquifer system, Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties, California, a three-layer mathematical mode