Keeping Accounts for Groundwater Sustainability
A team of California researchers propose a general outline to guide local agencies in crafting Groundwater Sustainability Plans under the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014
California is entering a new era in how it manages its largest source of water storage — groundwater. Initial efforts implementing the state’s new Sustainable Groundwater Management Act must focus on getting local and state agencies organized and able to communicate with each other. Having common expectations for the contents of the law’s required ...
A team of California researchers propose a detailed outline to guide local agencies in crafting Groundwater Sustainability Plans under the California Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014
Published in Hydrological Processes
Relatively little is known about the role of perched aquifers in hydrological, biogeochemical, and biological processes of vernal pool landscapes. The objectives of this study are to introduce a perched aquifer concept for vernal pool formation and maintenance and to examine the resulting hydrological and biogeochemical phenomena in a representativ...
Published in ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Declining fall flows are limiting the ability of the Cosumnes River to support large fall runs of Chinook salmon. Management scenarios linking surface water and groundwater alternatives to provide sufficient fall flows are examined using groundwater flow and channel routing models. Results show that groundwater overdraft in the basin has converted ...
Policymakers, hydrologists, legal experts, economists and water managers discuss Californias management of groundwater — past, present and future — in a series of nine public presentations hosted by the Center for Watershed Sciences and the California Environmental Law & Policy Center, at UC Davis. Topics include the role of groundwater in managing...
Published in Journal of Wetlands Ecology