Subsidence and Groundwater Monitoring Project

Subsidence and Groundwater Monitoring Project

The proposed Project involves the installation of groundwater and subsidence monitoring stations that would provide real-time data to monitor groundwater levels and other spatial information as they relate to ground subsidence. The data would be used to help inform how subsidence is affecting the Aqueduct and would assist in maintaining infrastructure of the State Water Project (SWP). The proposed Project involves ground disturbance such as drilling to a maximum depth of approximately 5 to 2,800 feet below ground surface (bgs), site preparation activities such as vegetation removal and grading from the embankment road to the work area, groundwater monitoring well installations and associated equipment, extensometer installations, and global positioning system (GPS) antenna and telemetry/solar panel installations. Access to the sites would be made via the Aqueduct embankment road. Some ground improvements may be required for accessibility during wet and muddy conditions such as spreading gravel over unimproved ground surfaces.

Derby Acres | Lost Hills, Taft

Kern

Unincorporated

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC), California Department of Transportation, District 6 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Aeronautics (DOT), California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT), California Department of Water Resources (DWR), California Highway Patrol (CHP), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Natural Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Office of Historic Preservation, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW)

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW)

Other (Groundwater monitoring wells)

Groundwater monitoring equipment

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Energy, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Mandatory Findings of Significance, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Septic System, Solid Waste, Transportation, Tribal Cultural Resources, Utilities/Service Systems, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire