Indian Wells Valley
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Indian Wells Valley
- Basin Number
- 6-054
- SGMA Basin Priority
- High
- Critically Overdrafted
- Yes
- Hydrologic Region Name
- South Lahontan
- Counties
- Inyo, Kern, San Bernardino
- Adjacent Basins
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization – medium. Comment: “Overdraft has been documented since the 1960’s. Water quality issues with respect to overdraft and mixing of aquifers.”
2016: Critical Overdraft
2018: Draft basin priority – High. Comment – CRITICAL OVERDRAFT 2016 KCWA showed long-term hydrographs in a 2016 meeting that showed definite groundwater level decline. Indian Wells Valley is co-managed with the Kern County GSA by the City of Ridgecrest, Inyo County, San Bernardino County, Indian Wells Valley Water District, the United States Navy – Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 2018 Final Basin Prioritization: Basin prioritization is changed from medium to high priority.
2020: January 31 – GSP filed with DWR
2022: GSP approved by DWR
At-A-Glance
California Water Library Documents About This Basin
Statement of Findings regarding the Approval of the Indian Wells Valley Basin Groundwater Sustainability Plan
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | January 13th, 2022
Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin Groundwater Sustainability Plan
Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Authority (IWVGA) | January 14th, 2020
Currently, the groundwater resources in the Indian Wells Valley Groundwater Basin (IWVGB or Basin) are not being sustainably managed. Overdraft conditions have existed fo
Status of Groundwater Quality in the California Desert Region, 2006–2008: California GAMA Priority Basin Project
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | January 9th, 2013
Groundwater quality in six areas in the California Desert Region (Owens, Antelope, Mojave, Coachella, Colorado River, and Indian Wells) was investigated as part
Detection and Measurement of Land Subsidence Using Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar and Global Positioning System, San Bernardino County, Mojave Desert, California
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | July 1st, 2003