Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District Voluntary Rotational Land Fallowing Project Initial Study/Negative Declaration
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Summary
- SCH Number
- 2020080457
- Lead Agency
- Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
- Document Title
- Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District Voluntary Rotational Land Fallowing Project Initial Study/Negative Declaration
- Document Type
- NOD - Notice of Determination
- Received
- Posted
- 10/1/2020
- Project Applicant
- Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
- Present Land Use
- Specific site and surrounding land use and settings would vary depending on the landowner applications that would be approved by SWID for fallowing. The District’s management area encompasses the Cities of Wasco and Shafter and both incorporated and unincorporated lands.
- Document Description
- To comply with SGMA, a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) was developed for crucial groundwater basins in California. The Kern Groundwater Authority (KGA) is one of eleven (11) Groundwater Sustainability Agency’s (GSAs) within the San Joaquin Valley. SWID is a member of the KGA. In 2015, SWID began implementation of the SWID Recharge Project to help achieve sustainable groundwater levels and avoid the corresponding adverse environmental and economic burden associated with groundwater declines, including increased use of power and energy resources as well as the potential for fallowing of agricultural lands in the District. The main sustainability goal is to maintain an economically viable groundwater resource. One of the multi-pronged approaches is to provide a program to allow the fallowing of agricultural lands for the purpose of reducing water demands relying less on groundwater sources for agricultural irrigation. Long-term groundwater sustainability goals are to implement project and management actions to both increase water supplies and reduce demands within SWID’s management basin. Specific to the reduction in irrigation demand, SWID proposes a Voluntary Rotational Land Fallowing Program. The SWID Board of Directors would decide annually if there is a need to fallow land to reduce irrigation water demand and if there would be a sufficient budget available in the Program and Management Action portion of the SWID Management Area 2 (MA-2) budget to compensate the landowners for fallowing efforts.
- Contact Information
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Dena Giacomini
Provost & Pritchard
1800 30th Street Suite 280
Bakersfield, CA 93301
Phone : (661) 616-5900
dgiacomini@ppeng.com
Location
- Coordinates
- 35°32'8"N 119°19'54.2"W
- Cities
- Shafter Wasco
- Counties
- Kern
- Regions
- Unincorporated
- Zip
- 93280
- Total Acres
- 800
- State Highways
- I-5 and Hwy 99
- Airports
- Wasco-Kern County Airport
- Township
- 26-28S
- Range
- 24-26E
- Base
- Mt Diabl
- Other Location Info
- QUADS - WASCO NW, POND, WASCO SW,WASCO, FAMOSO, RIO BRAVO, ROSEDALE
Notice of Determination
- Approving Agency
- Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
- Approving Agency Role
- Lead Agency
- Approved On
- Final Environmental Document Available at
- District Office, 16294 Central Valley Hwy, Wasco, CA 93280
Determinations
- (1) The project will have a significant impact on the environment
- No
- (2a) An Environmental Impact Report was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
- No
- (2b) A Mitigated or a Negative Declaration was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
- Yes
- (2c) An other document type was prepared for this project pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
- No
- (3) Mitigated measures were made a condition of the approval of the project
- No
- (4) A mitigation reporting or monitoring plan was adopted for this project
- No
- (5) A Statement of Overriding Considerations was adopted for this project
- No
- (6) Findings were made pursuant to the provisions of CEQA
- Yes
Attachments
- Notice of Determination
- County Clerk Package PDF 208 K
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