OCWD Management Area
SECTION 3 MANAGEMENT AREA DESCRIPTION
3.1 OCWD MANAGEMENT AREA
OCWD’s service area covers approximately 430 square miles and is co-extensive with the OCWD Management Area for purposes of the Alternative, except as identified below. The OCWD service area includes 90 percent of the area designated by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) as Basin 8- 1, the “Coastal Plain of Orange County Groundwater Basin” in Bulletin 118 (DWR, 2003). For the purposes of this Alternative, the OCWD Management Area contains the same geographical area as the portion of the OCWD service area within Basin 8-1 except for a small 6.7-square mile area in the northeast corner of the basin that is part of the Santa Ana Canyon Management Area. The boundaries of Basin 8-1, the OCWD service area and the OCWD Management Area are shown in Figure 3-1.
Figure 3-1: Basin 8-1, OCWD Service Area and OCWD Management Area
BASIN 8-1 ALTERNATIVE 2022 UPDATE
Management Area Description 3-4
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