Below are details on the climatology, geology, and the physical environment of the Richmond Field Station, including current and historic sources.
Rainfall
RFS Rain Watch
2022-22 Rain Year (as of 03/14/2023)
32.48"
Rain Year (7/1-6/30) Average: 21.81"
Recent Data
Weather
Current Sources
- California Department of Water Resources CDEC Station Locator Map
- Richmond City Hall (Station ID, RHL, needs to be entered)
- Contra Costa County Flood Control Rain Map
- Contra Costa County Flood Control District Rain Gauges
- Contra Costa County Flood Control Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) map
- NOAA Mesowest Oakland North weather station
- NOAA Mesowest LBNL weather station
- Balance Hydrologics Berkeley Office rain gauge
- LBNL Weather Weekly Lookaheads
- CDEC Northern California Precipitation Graph 8 station index
- CDEC San Joaquin Precipitation- Central Sierra 5 station index
- Center for Western Weather and Water Extremes
Historic Records
- Richmond, CA NOAA climate records 1981-2010 (under view station data, select 2010)
- CNFRC Northern CA Observed Precipitation
Geology
Historic Geotechnical Investigation Reports
- 1950s Guide to Hydrogeology of East Bay Area and Northern Santa Clara Valley
- April 23, 1980 Geotechnical Exploration Northern Regional Library Compact Shelving Facility
- December 16, 1980 Supplemental Geotechnical Exploration NRLF Compact Shelving Facility
- 1984 Borehole to Surface Electrical Monitoring of a Salt Water Injection Experiment
- 1987 Hydrogeologic Site Assessment of the Engineering Geoscience Well Field at the Richmond Field Station, Contra Costa County, California
- December 1987 Borehole Electromagnetic Survey of the Engineering Geoscience Well Field at the RFS: Data Presentation
- June 3, 1988 Geotechnical Engineering Study, Northern Regional Library Facility, Phase 2
- January 26, 1993 Salt Water injection monitoring with crosshold EM: A report of the 1992 field activities at the UC Richmond Field Sation
- April 2, 2001 Geotechnical Engineering Study, Northern Regional Library Facility, Phase 3
- December 23, 2009 Geotechnical Memorandum - Hydrogen Fuel Station Limited Geotechnical Investigation
- February 15, 2018 Geotechnical Investigation Report, Northern Regional Library Facility (NRLF) Phase 4 Expansion
Physical Environment
- Bay Area Air Quality Management District Pt. San Pablo meterological station
- 2009 NOAA Tide Tables for Richmond Inner Harbor Station ID: 9414849
- Tide and Current Predictor for Richmond Inner Harbor
- Southeast Richmond Watershed Map Courtesy Oakland Museum
- Tsunami Inundation Map Richmond Quadrangle, 2009 Cal EMA(PDF file) and clip with Berkeley Global Campus