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
- Counties
- Tehama
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s Sacramento River hydrologic region, the Sacramento Valley – Red Bluff subbasin is 271,794 acres in size. This Medium priority basin is home to an estimated 26,709 people (2010 value). It has approximately 5080 wells, of which approximately 56 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 82 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.
Final Basin Prioritization: Medium.
2022 Jan 31 – Groundwater Sustainability Plan submitted to DWR.
2023: October 26 – GSP determined incomplete by DWR. GSA given 180 days to address deficiencies.
December 11 – Addressing Groundwater Overdraft in the Sacramento Valley, Public Policy Institute of California