CALIFORNIA / KERN COUNTY
Lake of the Woods
- Population (2020)
- 790
- Water cut
- October 23, 2013
- Cause
- groundwater
- Where
- 34.82°N, 119.00°W
What happened, and when
Every dated water event the register holds for Lake of the Woods, newest first, each with the sources that document it.
- Ran dryon the card
Ran dry: what happened
Lake of the Woods, a mountain community above Tejon Pass served by a mutual water company's wells since 1925, lost its main well in summer 2013: production fell from about 300 to 70 gallons a minute, four test wells came up dry, and the company began trucking water bought from the Lebec district into customers' tanks. The state made the first of three emergency hauled-water grants on October 23, 2013, and in February 2014 officials estimated the remaining wells could run dry by May. A state-funded replacement well exceeded the nitrate limit, so in February 2017 the State Water Board funded roughly eleven more months of hauled water, finding the system still short of supply.
- California State Water Resources Control Board: Resolution No. 2017-0005: additional funds for Lake of the Woods Mutual Water Company hauled water (February 22, 2017)
- KPCC (via KQED): California drought: town north of L.A. could run out of water (February 7, 2014)
- Self-Help Enterprises: Progress for Lake of the Woods in Kern County (November 26, 2019)