• Your drinking water is filtered naturally through sixty feet of riverbed gravel and sand, and meets or exceeds over a hundred different standards for drinking water quality?
• The amount of water VOMWD delivers on a hot summer day (5 million gallons) could fill 80 million cups of coffee?
• On average, a Sonoma County household of four uses about 200,000 gallons of water annually for indoor and outdoor use?
• During our summer months the Russian River is one of the most heavily used streams for canoeing in the nation?
• Thirty-four species of fish, including steelhead trout, striped bass, American shad, and coho and chinook salmon, call the Russian River watershed and it's tributaries home?
• Sonoma County Water Agency’s water-inflated rubber dam is the width of the Russian River, tall enough to drive a car through and is equipped with two fish ladders?
• An acre-foot is the amount of water required to fill one acre of land to a depth of one foot?
• One acre-foot supplies the annual water needs of approximately two households?

• Originates in central Mendocino County, approximately 15 miles north of Ukiah
• Drains 1,485 square miles including much of Sonoma and Mendocino counties
• Meets the Pacific Ocean at Jenner, 20 miles west of Santa Rosa
• Main channel length is 110 miles
• Five principal tributaries: the East Fork of the Russian River, Big Sulphur Creek, Mark West Creek, Maacama Creek, and Dry Creek

• Scott Dam: constructed 1921, concrete gravity dam
• Drainage area: 298 square miles
• Storage capacity: 81,160 acre-feet

Lake Mendocino on the East Fork of the Russian River

• Coyote Valley Dam Project: constructed 1959, rolled earth embankment dam
• Drainage area: 105 square miles
• Storage capacity: 69,230 acre-feet

Lake Sonoma on Dry Creek

• Warm Springs Dam: constructed 1984, rolled earth embankment dam
• Drainage area: 130 square miles
• Storage capacity: 381,000 acre-feet.