Livermore Valley
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Livermore Valley
- Basin Number
- 2-010
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Medium
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- San Francisco Bay
- Counties
- Alameda, Contra Costa
- Adjacent Basins
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At-A-Glance
Located in California’s San Francisco Bay hydrologic region, the Livermore Valley is 69,567 acres in size. This Medium priority basin is home to an estimated 196,838 people (2010 value). It has approximately 755 wells, of which approximately 29 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 30.83 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: Basin Prioritization comments: Some areas have boron concentrations exceeding 2 mg/L (B-118 & Sorenson et. al. 1985).
2016: December – Alternative to Groundwater Sustainability Plan submitted to DWR
2018: Basin Prioritization comments:
- 1) Declining groundwater – CASGEM/WDL/GWIDS: Stable hydrographs. Source: DWR 2) Protecting the Groundwater Basin’s levels: The Valley’s main groundwater basin has an estimated storage capacity of 250,000 acre-feet (an acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons, enough to supply two households per year). To prevent overpumping, the basin is cooperatively managed by Zone 7 and its retailers so that, even during multiyear droughts, groundwater levels do not drop below historic low levels of 130,000 acre-feet. Source: Zone 7 Water Agency
2018: Final Basin Prioritization: Medium.
2019: March – Annual Report for the Sustainable Groundwater Management Program 2018 WY