The company that produced the Rohnert Park Environmental Impact Report (EIR) only examined a small, 6 mile by 4 mile area that includes Rohnert Park, Cotati, Sonoma State University (SSU) and Penngrove. This area has an annualized groundwater recharge rate of 1.6 million gallons a day.

But Rohnert Park alone consumes more than 4 million gallons a day. Cotati draws about 400,000 gallons a day, SSU 164,000 gallons, and Penngrove about 300,000 gallons. Combine these figures, minus the recharge rate, and 3.5 million gallons of water are lost every day.

To make matters worse, The Sonoma County Water Agency (SCWA) pumps 1.7 million gallons a day, immediately adjacent to this arbitrary study zone, but from the same aquifer.

Rohnert Park's own Environmental Impact Report (EIR) reveals that the water table has dropped by at least 150 feet over the last 25 years. We offer here a few select pages of that report.

You can download the file here