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Resume of Ground Water Hydrology in the Southern San Joaquin Valley
Author(s) -
Manning John C.
Publication year - 1967
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1967.tb03483.x
Subject(s) - san joaquin , groundwater , overdraft , hydrology (agriculture) , water resource management , irrigation , aquifer , environmental science , geology , ecology , geotechnical engineering , finance , soil science , economics , biology
This article discusses the southern part of California's San Joaquin Valley, particularly within Kern County. With groundwater supplying a relatively large proportion of the total agricultural irrigation demand, this is a region of intensive groundwater development, and in recent years, it has had a severe groundwater overdraft. Alleviation of the overdraft by importing water from northern California has been a major goal of Kern County water users for many years. With imminent deliveries of Feather River water to Kern County through the state aqueduct (beginning in 1968), groundwater levels may now be near their all‐time lows. This article summarizes conditions which have caused the large overdraft and suggest possible changes that may occur within the groundwater basin in the future.