Downtown San Francisco
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Downtown San Francisco
- Basin Number
- 2-040
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- San Francisco Bay
- Counties
- San Francisco, San Mateo
- Adjacent Basins
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s San Francisco Bay hydrologic region, the Downtown San Francisco groundwater basin is 7,640 acres in size. This Very Low priority basin is home to an estimated 323,721 people (2010 value). It has approximately 16 wells, of which approximately 1 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 0 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization – very low. Comments: Groundwater is subject to high concentrations of nitrates, chloride, boron and TDS (B-118) & (Phillips et al. 1993) 2018: Draft priority – very low. Groundwater level comments:
- 1) CASGEM/WDL/GWIDS: No data or data insufficent to determine GWL status. Source: DWR
- 2) No available documention on groundwater level decline past or present in the basin.
2018: Final Basin Prioritization: Very Low.