Tehachapi Valley West
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Tehachapi Valley West
- Basin Number
- 5-028
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Status
- Adjudicated Basin
- DWR Region & POC
South Central
Trent Sherman
(559) 230-3353
Trent.Sherman@water.ca.gov
Watermaster: Tehachapi Cummings Water District- Number of Wells
- 423
- Hydrologic Region Name
- Tulare Lake
- Counties
- Kern
- Adjacent Basins
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s hydrologic region, the Tehachapi Valley West is 14800 acres in size. This Very Low priority basin is home to an estimated 17235 people (2010 value), which have been at a rate of . Tehachapi Valley West is a(n) basin with approximately 423 wells, of which approximately 24 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for approximately 100 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2004: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization (as part of Tehachapi Valley East) – very low
2018: Draft basin priority – very low
Eighty-eight percent of the basin is adjudicated per DWR
2018 Final Basin Prioritization: Basin status is changed from medium to very low.
GSA Information