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i03 Groundwater Sustainability Plan Areas

Metadata Updated: July 24, 2025

The passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in 2014 set forth a statewide framework to help protect groundwater resources over the long-term. SGMA requires local agencies to form groundwater sustainability agencies (GSAs) for the high and medium priority basins. GSAs develop and implement groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs) to avoid undesirable results and mitigate overdraft within 20 years. GSP boundaries are managed through the SGMA Portal. This dataset represents the current GSP boundaries and includes attributes such as GSP manager contacts and GSP status. The GSP submission process is completed via the SGMA Portal and includes two primary steps: 1) a GSA(s) submits a GSP, and all associated documents and data, to the SGMA Portal’s GSP Reporting System; and 2) the Department conducts an acceptance review and posts accepted GSPs to the SGMA Portal. A single GSP, or multiple GSPs with a Coordination Agreement, must cover an entire basin or subbasin, and can only be submitted once adopted by the underlying GSA(s). GSPs are submitted in the format required by 23 CCR §353.2 and 23 CCR §353.4 of the GSP Regulations and includes the shapefiles associated with this dataset. The Department of Water Resources (DWR) must complete the acceptance review within 20-days following the submission of a GSP. During the acceptance review, DWR verifies that the GSP submission demonstrates that the GSP was adopted, covers the entire basin or subbasin, and contains all required documents and data. If DWR accepts the submitted GSP, it is then posted to the SGMA Portal, and then a public comment period is opened.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date July 23, 2025
Metadata Updated Date July 24, 2025
Publisher California Department of Water Resources
Maintainer
Identifier 7891a489-12a8-44ff-996e-b8e1da71eb7d
Data First Published 2023-02-07T00:06:27.000Z
Data Last Modified 2025-05-29T16:07:05.000Z
Category Natural Resources, Water
Public Access Level public
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Datagov Dedupe Retained 20250724164837
Harvest Object Id 050cfb9b-2b20-463a-b8a5-64fcd3d9f061
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 82af9d6c72f0bbaa4f3b422946f19d67423ba0e6a3eaae5e5a171dc5b4a5c3bd
Source Schema Version 1.1

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