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Kern GSAs say 2025 GSP revisions add monitoring, thresholds and new mitigation tracks
Summary
Kern County groundwater sustainability agencies told the State Water Board their 2025 plan revisions expand monitoring networks, raise minimum thresholds, add a degraded‑water mitigation track and commit to implementation timelines and community outreach.
Representatives of the Kern County Subbasin told the State Water Resources Control Board on Sept. 17 that the 2025 groundwater sustainability plan (GSP) revisions substantially improve monitoring, sustainable management criteria and mitigation capacity.
The 20 GSAs prepared a single foundational GSP with six supplemental "Blue Pages," presenters said, and adopted multiple technical refinements after months of collaboration with Board staff. That work included a comprehensive data‑gap analysis, expansion of the groundwater level network (about 187 representative wells in the 2025 draft, with plans to add additional wells to fill data gaps), and a proposed increase in groundwater quality monitoring (about 55 representative…
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