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Fort Bragg
Water Facts
Fort Bragg has three water sources:
- Noyo River
- Newman Reservoir on small tributary of Noyo
- Waterfall Gulch, tributary of Hare Creek
Water shortages in the past occurred low river flows coincide at the end of summer, early fall. Conservation program over the last ten years has provided indirectly 150 million gallons a year.
State has recently indicated that Fort Bragg can draw a greater amount of water from the Noyo at high tides. Previously we had to base our draw on the amount of Noyo water bypass.
Fort Bragg uses 250 - 275 million gallons of water a year
| water use year per year | 275,000,000 |
| use per month | 22,916,667 30 |
| use per day | 763,889 |
Fort Bragg has storage capacity of
- 3.3 million gallons treated water
- 4-6 million untreated water
- Approximately 10 days of water.
City is planning:
$325,000 Madsen Hole Pump Station
$475,000 Madsen Hole Piping
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$800,000
1000 to 1500 acre feet reservoir might cost $5,000,000 to $10,000,000
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