VENTURA COUNTY RESOURCE FACTS

*Ventura County is the 17th most important agricultural producing county of the 3,175 counties in the United States,

*There are over 28,000 acres of gullies and badlands in the southern half of Ventura County producing an estimated 880,000 tons of sediment per year.

*Our cropland can withstand the loss of 2 to 5 tons of topsoil a year without losing it's capacity to sustain crop yields.

* About one-fourth of our cropland is eroding at rates that, if continued, will reduce. yields.

*Approximately 13.5% of our irrigated acres (22 square miles) are affected by seawater intrusion.

*Groundwater basins supply approximately 70% of the water used in the county, and are being overdrafted at a rate of about 80,000 acre feet per year.