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The Ukiah Valley Groundwater Basin is located in the North Coast hydrologic region in Mendocino County, California. In 2009, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) launched the California Statewide Groundwater Elevation Monitoring (CASGEM) Program to monitor groundwater basins (groundwater table elevations) throughout California. DWR developed the CASGEM Groundwater Basin Prioritization process to classify groundwater basins and sub-basins as high, medium, low, or very low priority by using the following criteria: overlying population, projected growth of overlying population, the number public supply wells, the number of total wells, overlying irrigated acreage, reliance on groundwater as the primary source of water, and any impacts the groundwater basin has experienced from overdraft, subsidence, saline intrusion, and or other water quality degradation problems. …show more content…
With the introduction of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in 2014, a new form of legislation directed towards encouraging groundwater sustainability throughout California, it has prompted the formation of groundwater sustainable agencies (GSAs) that will monitor their groundwater basin at a regional scale and enforce a groundwater sustainable plan (GSP) that will drive them to attain groundwater sustainability by the year 2040. Basins classified as medium or high priority by DWR, will have to comply with the SGMA

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