Gravelly Ford Water District Groundwater Sustainability Plan

This Plan is for the Gravelly Ford Groundwater Sustainability Area, one of seven components of the Madera Subbasin. It encompasses approximately 8,500 acres; its boundaries are coterminous with those of the Gravelly Ford Water District (District). Grape vineyards, nut tree groves, and on-farm rural residences are the only land uses in the Area. The District has from the beginning bee’n a conjunctive use operation with the import of surface water for both recharge and irrigation. The management of this operation has been to utilize the maximum amount of available surface waters prior to using groundwater for the production of crops.