The City of Visalia obtains its water from the groundwater aquifer, and is committed to protecting its quality and ensuring its availability to the community now and into the future. The aquifer is continually recharged through deep percolation of local rainfall, the snowpack that melts and flows down through the Kaweah and St. Johns waterway system, including Millcreek, Packwood and Cameron Creeks, and the irrigation of the farmland area surrounding the City.

In order to capture and retain a greater amount of the riparian flows for groundwater recharge, the City has invested in the development of groundwater recharge basins.  The City presently operates 10 recharge basins, and is in the process of developing additional recharge facilities at the Eastside Regional Park.

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