Klamath River Valley – Lower Klamath Lake
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Klamath River Valley – Lower Klamath Lake
- Basin Number
- 1-002.02
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- North Coast
- Counties
- Siskiyou
- Adjacent Basins
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s North Coast hydrologic region, the Klamath River Valley – Lower Klamath Lake is 75,330 acres in size. This Very Low priority basin is home to an estimated 62 people (2010 value). It has approximately 34 wells, of which approximately 0 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 6.29 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Klamath Project
A Review of the History of Water Use throughout the Klamath River Basin
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Klamath groundwater studies
Ground-Water Hydrology of the Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon and California, USGS, April 2010
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Lower Klamath National Wildlife Refuge
Oregon Wild Klamath pages The Klamath Tribes – Tribal Administration
2018: Basin Prioritization: Very Low.