WHERE YOUR WATER COMES FROM
Local Resources
About half of the Santa Clarita Valley’s (SCV) water is produced by the four retailers from the local groundwater supplies. The groundwater supplies in the Valley come from two sources, the Alluvium Aquifer and the Saugus Formation. The Alluvium Aquifer generally underlies the Santa Clara River and its several tributaries, to maximum depths of about 200 feet; the Saugus Formation underlies practically the entire Upper Santa Clara River area, to depths of at least 2,000 feet.
The State Water Project
About half of the SCV’s water is provided by CLWA from imported water sources, primarily the State Water Project from Northern California.
The State Water Project extends for more than 600 miles from north to south terminating at Castaic Lake.
