Eel River Groundwater Sustainability Plan
Humboldt County Department of Public Works, GHD, Inc, SHN Consulting Engineers and Geologists, Stillwater Sciences, Thomas Gast & Associates, Western Resource Advocates (WRA), Humboldt County Resource Conservation District (HCRCD) | January 29th, 2022
In 2015, Humboldt County received a planning grant from DWR for technical studies and planning which led to the submission in December 2016 of a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) Alternative, a streamlined version of a GSP. The GSP Alternative was disapproved by DWR in 2019 primarily because objective management criteria had not been established for 10 years; a quantitative estimate of sustainable yield was not developed; and the GSP Alternative did not quantify the impacts of groundwater use on surface water systems and determine at what point they are significant and unreasonable. As a result of the GSP Alternative being disapproved, formation of a Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA) was required and development of a full GSP was required by January 31, 2022.
This is that document. Due to file size, this document has been divided into sections.
Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5
Click here for the Eel River Valley GSP page at the California Department of Water Resources
Keywords
Groundwater Exchange, Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP), planning and management, Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA)