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Groundwater Sustainability Plan
Relevant Experience:
Kern River GSA, Kern County
 SGMA planning
 Technical support for agency The Kern River Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA)
collaboration and GSA formation (KRGSA) was the one of the first GSAs to form in the high‐
priority Kern County Groundwater Subbasin (5‐22.14),
 Preparation of Groundwater
Sustainability Plan where more than 50 water and irrigation districts,
municipalities, water storage districts, the County, other
Active Dates: 2016‐present
local agencies, and mutual water companies rely on the
Budget: $360,000 shared groundwater resources. The KRGSA was formed
through a Memorandum of Understanding among Kern
Reference:
Delta Water District, the City of Bakersfield, and the
Mr. Mark Mulkay
General Manager Improvement District No. 4 of Kern County Water Agency.
Kern Delta Water District The proactive actions of the KRGSA have allowed the early
661.834.4656 formation of a governance structure and initial steps toward
mulkay@kerndelta.org preparation of a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP),
which must be completed in early 2020. Todd Groundwater,
Key Todd Staff:
the technical consultant for the KRGSA, is preparing the GSP.
Phyllis Stanin, Mike Maley, Iris Priestaf,
and Chad Taylor Todd Groundwater’s approach is to develop a technically‐
credible GSP guided by the GSP regulations, reliant on
existing data and analyses to the extent practical, and based on locally‐appropriate best management
practices (BMPS) for groundwater management. Todd is building on existing management planning
documents and foundational data sets and applying locally developed numerical models (the Kern Delta
Water District Superposition Model) along with C2VSIM, the regional model of the California Central
Valley developed by DWR. Todd Groundwater is preparing GSP chapters for submittal to the KRGSA,
including documentation the GSA, Plan Area, basin setting, and definition of minimum thresholds and
measurable objectives. Management actions and projects are being defined within the context of overall
conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater,
and adaptive management. Todd Groundwater is
also supporting GSP stakeholder collaboration and
public outreach efforts through preparation of
technical fact sheets for public distribution and
agenda items for GSA meetings.
Phyllis Stanin serves as the Project Manager and is
supported by Mike Maley (lead groundwater flow
modeler) and Iris Priestaf (technical oversight and
specific GSP chapter development) and Chad Taylor
(hydrogeologic conceptual model and monitoring
plan GSP chapter development).

TODD GROUNDWATER

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