Islais Valley
Statistics
- Basin Name
- Islais Valley
- Basin Number
- 2-033
- SGMA Basin Priority
- Very Low
- Critically Overdrafted
- No
- Hydrologic Region Name
- San Francisco Bay
- Counties
- San Francisco, San Mateo
- Adjacent Basins
At-A-Glance
Located in California’s San Francisco Bay hydrologic region, the Islais Valley is 5,941 acres in size. This Very Low priority basin is home to an estimated 131,671 people (2010 value). It has approximately 16 wells, of which approximately 0 are water supply wells. Groundwater accounts for 0 percent of the basin’s water supply.
Basin Notes
2003: Bulletin 118 basin description
2014: CASGEM basin prioritization – Very Low
2018: Draft basin priority – Very Low. Groundwater level comments:
- 1) CASGEM/WDL/GWIDS: No data or data insufficent to determine GWL status. Source: DWR
- 2) No available documentation on groundwater level decline past or present in the basin
Salt Intrusion comment: 1) Natural sources of TDS to groundwater in the San Francisco Bay study unit (Marina, Lobos, Downtown, Islais Valley, South San Francisco, Visitacion Valley, Westside, and the Santa Clara Valley groundwater basins ) include saltwater intrusion from the Bay and interaction between recharge water and aquifer materials derived from marine or estuarine sediments. On the east side of the Bay, high and moderate concentrations of TDS were detected in areas with a history of intrusion of water from the Bay in response to pumping of freshwater from aquifers. Source: USGS San Mateo County Office of Sustainability links to groundwater storage and recovery (GSR)
2018 Final Basin Prioritization: Very Low.