Sacramento Valley – Vina
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Sacramento Valley – Vina
- Basin Number
- 5-021.57
- SGMA Basin Priority
- High
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Sacramento River
- Counties
- Butte, Tehama
- Adjacent Basins
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: Basin prioritization – Comment: Groundwater from this basin is a key source of surface water inflow and serves eastside creeks, which have endangered spring run. Groundwater use based on B118-03 and 2005 Butte County Inventory.
2018: Draft priority – high. Comment: 1) CASGEM/WDL/GWIDS: Longterm hydrographs show groundwater level decline. Source: DWR Basin boundary request to consolidate basins with Tehama County pending Butte County basin boundary/consolidation request for Vina and the Wyandotte Creek 5-021.69, Corning 5-021.51, Colusa 5-021.52, West Butte 5-021.58, East Butte 5-021.59, Sutter 5-021.62 subbasins pending
2019: Basin boundary modification approved. Per DWR: It “consists of four parts. The first part revises and expands the Vina subbasin to cover groundwater dependent areas currently included in the northern portions of East Butte and West Butte subbasins. The modification extends the Butte County portion of Vina Subbasin southerly to the northern boundary of Western Canal Water District. The resulting Vina subbasin includes the City of Chico, unincorporated Durham, and the Durham Irrigation District. The second part modifies the western boundaries of the existing Butte County portion of Vina, and West Butte subbasins, near the Sacramento River to align with the Butte County line. The third part revises the southern boundary of the East Butte subbasin to follow the Butte/Sutter County line except for the Biggs-West Gridley Water District and Reclamation District 1004 jurisdictional boundaries; which results in these Districts being entirely within the resulting Butte subbasin. The fourth part consolidates the remaining East Butte and West Butte subbasin areas to form the Butte subbasin.” Phase 2 draft priority: high.
2022: January 28 – Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) delivered to Department of Water Resources (DWR)
2023: July 27 – DWR approved GSP
At-A-Glance
California Water Library Documents About This Basin
Assessing Causes and Consequences of Winter Surface Water Dynamics in California's Central Valley Using Satellite Remote Sensing
Wiley Online Library | June 3rd, 2025
California's Central Valley is increasingly vulnerable to winter floods. A comprehensive spatial baseline of flood extents is critical for inundation analyses that can en
Quality of groundwater used for domestic supply in the eastern Sacramento Valley and adjacent foothills, California
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | November 1st, 2024
More than 2 million Californians rely on groundwater from privately owned domestic wells for drinking-water supply. This report summarizes a water-quality survey of domes
Groundwater sustainability and land subsidence in California’s Central Valley
Water (MDPI) | April 22nd, 2024
The Central Valley of California is one of the most prolific agricultural regions in the world. Agriculture is reliant on the conjunctive use of surface-water and groundw
Thousands of domestic and public supply wells face failure despite groundwater sustainability reform in California’s Central Valley
Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) | September 8th, 2023
Subsurface water flux in California's Central Valley and its source watershed from space geodesy
American Geophysical Union (AGU) | September 29th, 2022
We combine measurements from Global Positioning System positioning and Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment gravity to infer change in water components in Central Vall
Vina Groundwater Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan
Vina and Rock Creek Reclamation District Groundwater Sustainability Agencies | December 15th, 2021
The Vina GSA and Rock Creek Reclamation District GSA and the stakeholders within the Subbasin recognize that this GSP is not the finish line; it is the starting line for
Multiscale Assessment of Agricultural Consumptive Water Use in California's Central Valley
American Geophysical Union (AGU) | May 4th, 2021
Hydrology, Hydraulics, and Water Management Technical Report
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) | December 15th, 2014
This Technical Report describes pertinent hydrologic and hydraulic condition and water management operations for Shasta Lake, the Sacramento River, the Delta, and the CVP