Sacramento Valley – Red Bluff
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Sacramento Valley – Red Bluff
- Basin Number
- 5-021.50
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Medium
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Sacramento River Hydrologic Region
- Counties
- Tehama
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s Sacramento River hydrologic region, the Sacramento Valley – Red Bluff is 271,794 acres in size. This Medium priority basin is home to an estimated 26,709 people (2010 value), which have been at a rate of 17.66. Sacramento Valley – Red Bluff is a(n) basin with approximately 5110 wells, of which approximately 55 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 73.00 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization – medium. Comment: Some BW quality impairments as per B-188, declining GW levels in west-side subdivision, and very high number of domestic BW use wells.
2018: Prioritization – medium. Comment: 1) CASGEM/WDL/GWIDS: Longterm hydrographs show groundwater level decline.
2018 Final Basin Prioritization: Basin prioritization remains unchanged.
