Soil suitability index identifies potential areas for groundwater banking on agricultural lands

O’Geen, A. T.; Saal, Matthew B.B.; Dahlke, H. E.; Doll, David; Elkins, Rachel; Fulton, Allan; Fogg, Graham E.; Harter, Thomas; Hopmans, Jan W.; Ingels, Chuck; Niederholzer, Franz; Solís, Samuel Sandoval; Verdegaal, Paul; Walkinshaw, Mike

doi:10.3733/ca.v069n02p75

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“…Many areas in the Central Valley appear suitable for on-farm flood recharge (Bachand et al 2015;O'Geen et al 2015). But implementation challenges include providing sustainable funding mechanisms for system operation and maintenance, developing flexible flood capture strategies, working within water rights constraints and managing risks for growers (Bachand et al 2015).…”

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On-farm flood capture could reduce groundwater overdraft in Kings River Basin

Bachand¹,

Roy²,

Stern³

et al. 2016

Cal Ag

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Chronic groundwater overdraft threatens agricultural sustainability in California's Central Valley. Diverting flood flows onto farmland for groundwater recharge offers an opportunity to help address this challenge. We studied the infiltration rate of floodwater diverted from the Kings River at a turnout upstream of the James Weir onto adjoining cropland; and calculated how much land would be necessary to capture the available floodwater, how much recharge of groundwater might be achieved, and the costs. The 1,000-acre pilot study included fields growing tomatoes, wine grapes, alfalfa and pistachios. Flood flows diverted onto vineyards infiltrated at an average rate of 2.5 inches per day under sustained flooding. At that relatively high infiltration rate,10 acres are needed to capture one CFS of diverted flood flow. We considered these findings in the context of regional expansion. Based upon a 30-year record of Kings Basin surplus flood flows, we estimate 30,000 acres operated for on-farm flood recharge would have had the capacity to capture 80% of available flood flows and potentially offset overdraft rates in the Kings Basin. Costs of on-farm flood capture for this study were estimated at $36 per acre-foot, less than the cost for surface water storage and dedicated recharge basins.

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Section: Considerations As a Regional Or Statewide Toolmentioning

confidence: 99%

On-farm flood capture could reduce groundwater overdraft in Kings River Basin

Bachand¹,

Roy²,

Stern³

et al. 2016

Cal Ag

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“…MAR methods to move surface water into aquifers include infiltration basins, farm field flooding, stream bank filtration, and injection wells (Doussan et al, 1998;Pavelic et al, 2006;O'Geen et al, 2015).…”

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Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

Beganskas

Fisher

2017

Journal of Environmental Management

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“…Aquifers with overdrafted groundwater supplies also underlie expansive agricultural land use, allowing the possibility to temporarily flood these regions. While recharge over agricultural lands can facilitate groundwater banking, it is important to identify crops best suited for saturated conditions (O'Geen et al, 2015). Remote sensing of agricultural responses to groundwater banking activities can play an important role in sustaining crop health and productivity while also restoring water supplies.…”

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Food, water, and fault lines: Remote sensing opportunities for earthquake-response management of agricultural water

Rodriguez

Ustin

Sandoval-Solís

et al. 2016

Science of The Total Environment

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Earthquakes often cause destructive and unpredictable changes that can affect local hydrology (e.g. groundwater elevation or reduction) and thus disrupt land uses and human activities. Prolific agricultural regions overlie seismically active areas, emphasizing the importance to improve our understanding and monitoring of hydrologic and agricultural systems following a seismic event. A thorough data collection is necessary for adequate postearthquake crop management response; however, the large spatial extent of earthquake's impact makes challenging the collection of robust data sets for identifying locations and magnitude of these impacts. Observing hydrologic responses to earthquakes is not a novel concept, yet there is a lack of methods and tools for assessing earthquake's impacts upon the regional hydrology and agricultural systems. The objective of this paper is to describe how remote sensing imagery, methods and tools allow detecting crop responses and damage incurred after earthquakes because a change in the regional hydrology. Many remote sensing datasets are long archived with extensive coverage and with well-documented methods to assess plant-water relations. We thus connect remote sensing of plant water relations to its utility in agriculture using a post-earthquake agrohydrologic remote sensing (PEARS) framework; specifically in agro-hydrologic relationships associated with recent earthquake events that will lead to improved water management.© 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords:Agro-hydrology Disaster management Monitoring Plant-water relations Post-earthquake agrohydrologic remote sensing (PEARS) Remote sensing Background, scope & needEarthquake events threaten food security, resource management and human life, and are observed to be steadily increasing (Ellsworth, 2013). As observed earthquake events continue to increase, it is important to explore and improve response and recovery strategies. Infrastructural damages, especially in urban environments, are at the forefront of research in remote sensing of earthquake-associated damage. Agricultural environments also face catastrophic impacts, often due to adverse hydrologic behavior following the event. The earthquake-water linkage poses particular threats to agricultural productivity, yet difficulty lies in predicting the location, destructiveness, and extent of damage. While effects of earthquake-induced hydrologic changes on crops remain largely unexplored, remote sensing of crop water relations provide a suite of tools to monitor responses and to mitigate crop loss. Remote sensing can address these challenges with archived imagery that has extensive spatial coverage. There are conceptual models that explicitly walk through remote sensing in disaster management (Joyce et al., 2009b) and remote sensing of post-earthquake urban damage (Eguchi et al., 2003) -leaving a gap at the interface of post-earthquake remote sensing of agricultural impacts. We therefore draw attention to current research in understanding earthquake impacts on agric...

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Soil suitability index identifies potential areas for groundwater banking on agricultural lands

Cited by 78 publications

References 13 publications

On-farm flood capture could reduce groundwater overdraft in Kings River Basin

On-farm flood capture could reduce groundwater overdraft in Kings River Basin

Coupling distributed stormwater collection and managed aquifer recharge: Field application and implications

Food, water, and fault lines: Remote sensing opportunities for earthquake-response management of agricultural water

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