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The IRWD headquarters is located in Irvine, California. IRWD offers the following services: potable water sales, sewer service, and the sale of reclaimed (or recycled) water. IRWD serves the city of Irvine, portions of Costa Mesa, Lake Forest, Newport Beach, Orange, and Tustin, and unincorporated areas of Orange County.
[3] [4] As a result, investment into groundwater recharge basins has been steadily increasing in recent years. Groundwater projects are planned to provide an increase of 500,000 acre-feet annually to the water supply. [5] With 2023 being an extreme wet year, California achieved a record-setting 8.7 million acre-feet of groundwater to aquifers. [6]
The groundwater basin provides a water supply to 19 municipal water agencies and special districts that serve 2.5 million Orange County residents. The Orange County Water District's service area covers approximately 350 square miles (910 km 2 ) and the District owns approximately 1,600 acres (650 ha) in and near the Santa Ana River , which it ...
After state regulators determined in 2022 that the Kern groundwater plans were inadequate, the 14 so-called groundwater sustainability agencies in the area began splitting and forming new local ...
A worker places gravel around a newly drilled water well at a home in Fresno County in 2023. ... loophole in California’s groundwater law. ... domestic wells have run dry throughout California ...
Well yield (gpm) Maximum [4] Well yield (gpm) Average [4] Notes Upper Ojai Valley groundwater basin: 4-1 3,800 200 50 Ojai Valley groundwater basin: 4-2 Medium 6,830 600 383 Ventura River Valley groundwater Basin: 4-3 12,710 Santa Clara River Valley groundwater basin: 4-4 High Acton Valley groundwater basin: 4-5 8,270 1,000 140 Pleasant Valley ...
Groundwater pumping has been causing the land to sink at a record pace in California's San Joaquin Valley. New research suggests ways of addressing the problem.
California aquifers, excerpted from map in Ground Water Atlas of the United States (USGS, 2000): Lavender is "other" for "rocks that generally yield less than 10 gal/min to wells"; dark green-blue (3) are the California coastal basin aquifers, bright-turquoise blue (7) is the Central Valley aquifer system, flat cobalt-blue (1) down south is Basin and Range aquifers