Redding Area – Bowman Subbasin
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Redding Area – Bowman Subbasin
- Basin Number
- 5-006.01
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Counties
- Tehama
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s Sacramento River hydrologic region, the Redding Area – Bowman Subbasin is 122,533.80 acres in size. This Very Low priority basin is home to an estimated 7,937 people (2010 value), which have been at a rate of 49.
Redding Area – Bowman Subbasin is a(n) basin with approximately 1510 wells, of which approximately 12 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 51 percent of the basin’s water supply.

Basin Notes
Bulletin 118 2003 Basin Description
2014 Basin Prioritization Notes:
Some localized high boron.
GW Use on Tehama Co GW Inventory data
2018: basin priority dropped from medium to low
Basin boundary modification request reflecting consolidation of management of Redding Area basins before DWR.
2019: Basin boundary modification. Per DWR: It “removes the shared boundary between Bowman and Rosewood subbasins and consolidates them into a single subbasin. The requesting agency is the exclusive Groundwater Sustainability Agency in both subbasins.”