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Quality of Groundwater Used for Domestic Supply in the Northern San Joaquin Valley, California

Zeno F. Levy, Mariia Balkan, Jennifer L. Shelton | July 28th, 2021


 Groundwater provides more than 40 percent of California’s drinking water. To protect this vital resource, the State of California created the Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program. The Priority Basin Project (PBP) of the GAMA Program provides a comprehensive assessment of the State’s groundwater quality and provides increased public access to groundwater-quality information. Private domestic and small-system drinking-water wells in the Northern San Joaquin Valley (NSJV) were the target for this assessment. These wells tend to pump water from shallower parts of alluvial aquifers compared to deeper, long-screened public-supply wells in the region. 

Keywords

Central Valley, disadvantaged communities (DACs), drinking water, Groundwater Ambient Monitoring and Assessment (GAMA) Program, Groundwater Exchange, water quality