Kern County Sub-Basin Groundwater Resources Used for Public Supply

Study Unit

  • Study Area: Kern Basin
  • Counties Covered: Kern

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Kern County Sub-Basin Groundwater Resources Used for Public Supply

Products

Reports

Anthropogenic and Geologic Causes of Anomalously High Uranium Concentrations in Groundwater Used for Drinking Water Supply in the Southeastern San Joaquin Valley, CA

Rosen, M.R., Burow, K.R., and Fram, M.S., 2019, Journal of Hydrology, v. 577, article 124009

Delineation of Spatial Extent, Depth, Thickness, and Potential Volume of Aquifers Used for Domestic and Public Water-Supply in the Central Valley, California

Voss, S.A., Jurgens, B.C., Fram, M.S., and Bennett, G.L.V., 2019, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2019-5076, 34 p.

Effects of Groundwater Development on Uranium: Central Valley, California, USA

Jurgens, B.C., Fram, M.S., Belitz, K., Burow, K.R., and Landon, M.K., 2010, Ground Water, v. 48, no. 6, p. 913-928

Quantifying Anthropogenic Contributions to Century-Scale Groundwater Salinity Changes, San Joaquin Valley, California, USA

Hansen, J.A., Jurgens, B., and Fram, M.S., 2018, Science of the Total Environment, v. 642, p. 125-136

Status and Understanding of Groundwater Quality in the Two Southern San Joaquin Valley Study Units, 2005–2006: California GAMA Priority Basin Project

Burton, C.A., Shelton, J.L., and Belitz, K., 2012, U.S. Geological Survey Scientific Investigations Report 2011-5218, 150 p.

Groundwater Quality in the Kern County Subbasin, California

Burton, C.A., and Belitz, K., 2012, U.S. Geological Survey Fact Sheet 2011-3150, 4 p.

Data

Blank results for trace-element data collected for the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program Priority Basin Project, October 2009–October 2018

Bennett, G.L., 2020, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Ground-Water Quality Data in the Kern County Subbasin Study Unit, 2006—Results from the California GAMA Program

Shelton, J.L., Pimentel, I., Fram, M.S. and Belitz, K., 2008, U.S. Geological Survey Data Series 337, 75 p.

Groundwater Development Leads to Decreasing Arsenic Concentrations in the San Joaquin Valley, California

Haugen, E.A., Jurgens, B.C., Arroyo-Lopez, J.A., and Bennett, G.L., 2021, Science of The Total Environment, Volume 771, 2021, 145223, ISSN 0048-9697

Groundwater-quality data and ancillary data for selected wells in the San Joaquin Valley, California, 1900-2015

Hansen, J.A., Jurgens B.C., and Fram, M.S., 2018, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Pesticide Constituent Data from the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP), 2004 - 2018

Lor, V., Balkan, M., and Stork, S.V., 2019, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Spatial Point Data Sets and Interpolated Surfaces of Well Construction Characteristics for Domestic and Public Supply Wells in the Central Valley, California, USA

Voss, S.A., and Jurgens, B.C., 2018, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Water quality and ancillary data for assessment of uranium concentrations in groundwater, San Joaquin Valley, CA (ver. 1.1, December, 2019)

Fram, M.S., 2019, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Water use information for sites sampled by the California Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment Program Priority Basin Project (GAMA-PBP), 2004-2021 (ver. 3.0, October 2023)

Stork, S.V., and Fram, M.S., 2021, U.S. Geological Survey data release

Photos

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USGS scientists measuring a groundwater well on a farm with irrigated fields in the background near Edison

USGS scientists measuring a groundwater well on a farm with irrigated fields in the background near Edison

Credit: USGS, 2006

Oil fields near Taft, California

Oil fields near Taft, California

Credit: USGS, 2006