Water Facts

Did you know...

Your drinking water is filtered naturally through sixty feet of riverbed gravel and sand, and meets or exceeds over a hundred different standards for drinking water quality?
The amount of water we deliver on a hot summer day (80 million gallons) could fill 1.28 billion cups of coffee?
On average, a Sonoma County household of four uses about 200,000 gallons of water annually for indoor and outdoor use?
During our summer months the Russian River is one of the most heavily used streams for canoeing in the nation?
Thirty-four species of fish, including steelhead trout, striped bass, American shad, and coho and chinook salmon, call the Russian River watershed and it's tributaries home?
Our water-inflated rubber dam is the width of the Russian River, tall enough to drive a car through and is equipped with two fish ladders?
If you emptied a five-gallon bucket of water into our largest water tank every five minutes for ten hours a day and seven days a week, it would take you 82 years to fill the tank?
An acre-foot is the amount of water required to fill one acre of land to a depth of one foot?
One acre-foot supplies the annual water needs of approximately two households?

Originates in central Mendocino County, approximately 15 miles north of Ukiah
Drains 1,485 square miles including much of Sonoma and Mendocino counties
Meets the Pacific Ocean at Jenner, 20 miles west of Santa Rosa
Main channel length is 110 miles
Five principal tributaries: the East Fork of the Russian River, Big Sulphur Creek, Mark West Creek, Maacama Creek, and Dry Creek