Runoff is estimated in acre-feet per year, or roughly the amount of water needed to cover a football field one foot deep.
A horizontal bar chart showing estimated runoff measurements for seven urban areas in California. From top to bottom, in acre-feet per year: Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, 490,000; Sacramento, 201,000; San Diego, 142,000; Riverside-San Bernardino 104,000; San Jose, 87,700, Santa Rosa, 64,300; Concord-Walnut Creek, 62,400.