Water is pumped from the CAP canals into the basins, allowing it to percolate through the soil, replenish aquifers and boost groundwater supplies. Each year, CAP schedules flows into recharge basins.

The recharge basin will recharge 240 acre-feet of water into the aquifer each day, which will take around two years to return to the river. The project lasted around a year, and the ground was ...

“We have 26 separate recharge basins. That’s what you’re seeing.” John Kennedy, executive director of engineering and water resources for Orange County Water District.

Stretch figures this basin has the capacity to store 900-acre feet of water a year. The project was paid for by Proposition 68 funding and a $1.2 million grant from the State Department of Water ...

Water fills one of the recharge basins at the High Desert Water Bank near Lancaster, where the Metropolitan Water District is starting to store water underground for cities across Southern California.

KERMAN, Calif. (KFSN) -- After just two years in the making, the Kenneson & Sanchez Groundwater Recharge Basins in Kerman are now complete. "As California adapts to a hotter and drier future ...

Recharge itself can be a painfully slow process — often just inches per day. As a result, even exceptionally wet years like 2017 and 2023 only briefly paused depletion of drinking water wells.

A drone photo of water diverted onto a newly constructed groundwater recharge basin at Mountain View and Temperance near Selma in Fresno County, California. Photo taken May 13, 2024.

The Tulare Basin’s four rivers - are just a few drops short of the 1983 record number with a combined runoff of a gushing 8.69 million acre/ feet.

The recharging basin is adjacent to another 20 acres for a future basin. Photographed Friday, March 3, 2023 near Madera. This story was originally published March 6, 2023 at 6:00 AM.

Recharge itself can be a painfully slow process — often just inches per day. As a result, even exceptionally wet years like 2017 and 2023 only briefly paused depletion of drinking water wells.