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Kern GSAs outline technical fixes in 2025 GSPs — monitoring expansion, stricter thresholds, new mitigation and subsidence actions
Summary
GSA technical teams and State Water Board staff described substantial 2025 GSP revisions: expanded monitoring networks, higher minimum thresholds, a 60‑day independent exceedance investigation and a new degraded‑water mitigation track; staff still flagged a few outstanding issues for verification.
Technical representatives from the Kern County groundwater sustainability agencies detailed substantial revisions to the subbasin’s 2025 Groundwater Sustainability Plan on Sept. 17, saying the changes address many of the State Water Board’s prior concerns and lay out clear steps for implementation.
Staff and GSA presenters reported they expanded the groundwater‑level monitoring network to about 187 representative wells (with plans to reach up to 197) and increased the groundwater‑quality monitoring network by about 30 wells, narrowing data gaps identified in a hexagon‑based analysis. The GSAs said these expansions will improve spatial and vertical coverage so domestic wells are better represented; the GSA team said the goal is to have most monitoring gaps filled with existing wells by the end of the year and to install new monitoring wells by the end of next year.
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