San Joaquin Valley – Kaweah
Statistics
- Basin Name
- San Joaquin Valley – Kaweah
- Basin Number
- 5-022.11
- SGMA Basin Priority
- High
- Critically Overdrafted
- Yes
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Tulare Lake
- Counties
- Kings
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization – High
2016: Basin boundary modification approved with Tulare Lake subbasin 5-022.11
2018: Phase 1 (FINAL) priority – High
2019: December 18: Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Plan published
2020:anuary 31 – Greater Kaweah GSA submitted GSP to the Department of Water Resources; January 31 – Mid-Kaweah GSA submitted GSP to DWR; January 31 – East Kaweah GSA submitted GSP to DWR,
May 14 — A Review of Groundwater Sustainability Plans in the San Joaquin Valley, Public Policy Institute of California
2022: January 28 – DWR notifies basin GSAs that their GSPs do not set acceptable sustainable management criteria for dealing with lowering groundwater levels, subsidence and impacts on surface waters, among other metrics.
July 27 – East Kaweah GSA submits a revised GSP; Greater Kaweah GSA submits a revised GSP; Mid Kaweah GSA submits a revised GSP
2023: May 3 – GSPs deemed inadequate by DWR
2024:
May 6 — November 5, 2024 hearing set by water board to determine if Kaweah sub basin should be put on probationary status, California State Water Resources Control Board
July 2 — Kaweah’s new groundwater plan may be enough to negate state action, if they can see eye-to-eye on subsidence — SJV Water
2025: April 15 – Per SWRCB The Kaweah probationary hearing originally set for January 7, 2025, was canceled. Staff are reviewing the amended 2024 GSPs, which show significant progress towards sustainability. A potential board action is anticipated this summer.
June 30 – Per SJV Water The State Water Resources Control Board referred the GSP and development of it back to the Department of Water Resources, a kind of re-do previously offered to managers at the Chowchilla sub basin
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
2024 Annual Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program Report
California Department of Conservation (CDoC) | May 29th, 2025
The Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program (MLRP) increases regional capacity for repurposing irrigated agricultural land to uses that reduce reliance on groundwater while
East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency 2024 Second Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan
East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (EKGSA) | November 29th, 2024
Following submittal of an initial notification in 2017, EKGSA began development of the initial Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) to comply with SGMA’s statutory and
Quantification of record-breaking subsidence in California’s San Joaquin Valley
Nature Portfolio (Springer Nature) | November 19th, 2024
Drought, water management, and agricultural livelihoods: Understanding human-ecological system management and livelihood strategies of farmer’s in rural California
Elsevier | July 11th, 2024
CV-SALTS Groundwater Sustainability Plan Data Integration Report Integrated Scope of Work - Task 5.3 (Draft)
Central Valley Salinity Alternatives for Long-Term Sustainability (CV-SALTS) | June 20th, 2024
The purpose of Prioritization & Optimization (P&O) Study Task 5.3 (Information Extraction from Groundwater Sustainability Plans [GSP]) is to extract and organize
Replenishing Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley: 2024 Update
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) | June 6th, 2024
Strategies to replenish groundwater basins—long used in some areas of the San Joaquin Valley—have increasingly come into focus as the region seeks to bring its overd
Kaweah Subbasin Probationary Hearing Draft Staff Report
California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) | May 2nd, 2024
The State Water Board recognizes that local public agencies in the Kaweah Subbasin have made significant efforts since the passage of SGMA to form three groundwater susta
Status of Water Quality in Groundwater Resources Used for Drinking-Water Supply in the Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, 2013–15: California GAMA Priority Basin Project
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) | April 25th, 2024
The California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP) investigated water quality of groundwater resources used for drinki
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
Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program Annual Report 2023
California Department of Conservation (CDoC) | April 9th, 2024
The Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program (MLRP) increases regional capacity for repurposing irrigated agricultural land to uses that reduce reliance on groundwat
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
Statement of Findings regarding the Determination of Inadequate Status of the Kaweah Subbasin Groundwater Sustainability Plan
California Department of Water Resources (DWR) | March 2nd, 2023
A simmering revolt against groundwater cutbacks in California
Stanford University | December 14th, 2022
In 2014, California legislators, focused on groundwater’s accelerating decline during a prolonged drought, passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. Its impera
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
Modeling the dynamic penetration depth of post-1950s water in unconfined aquifers using environmental tracers: Central Valley, California
Journal of Hydrology (Elsevier) | December 5th, 2022
The penetration depth of post-1950s recharge (D-1950) in aquifers is a marker that is frequently used to identify groundwater that is susceptible to anthropogenic contami
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
East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency 2022 First Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan
East Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (EKGSA) | July 27th, 2022
Due to size, this file has been divided into eight parts. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8
Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency 2022 First Amended Groundwater Sustainability Plan
Mid-Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (MKGSA) | July 27th, 2022
Due to size, this file has been divided. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9
Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency 2022 First Amended Groundwater Susteainability Plan
Greater Kaweah Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GKGSA) | July 20th, 2022
Due to size, this file has been divided. Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7, Part 8, Part 9, Part 10