Water Resource Challenges

The Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Basin is undergoing severe overdraft, up to 150,000 acre-feet per year. Degradation in water quality and water supply results, negatively impacting the region’s urban, industrial and agricultural water users. More

Saline intrusion from the Bay-Delta is occurring because of the depression in groundwater levels caused by the overdrafted condition of the Eastern Basin of the County. Saline intrusion is migrating eastward into the depression at an estimated rate of 50 to 300 acre-feet per year and is currently located just east of Interstate 5. More