With the storms hitting Northern California, the Sacramento Valley is suddenly switching from drought management to flood management. This is normal for the Sacramento Valley, where the water system transitions on a regular basis from flood to water supply management, and vice-versa.  This weekend, several reservoirs will be spilling water, the bypasses will be shunting … Continue reading “Sacramento Valley Switches to Flood Management”

Water suppliers in the Sacramento Valley continue their efforts to implement the Sacramento Valley Salmon Recovery Program. This includes:

As we approach the spring with varying hydrology throughout California, now is a good time to think about longer-term solutions that will help California during dry years. If Sites Reservoir were already online, the California Department of Water Resources has estimated that it would have already stored an additional 448,000 acre-feet of water this year, … Continue reading “California Needs Sites Reservoir…..”

As part of the ongoing Sacramento Valley Salmon Recovery Program, nearly 8500 cubic yards of gravel will be placed into the Sacramento River near Redding this week to provide much needed spawning habitat for Chinook salmon and steelhead trout. The partnership is part of a successful model being used throughout the Sacramento Valley, where the … Continue reading “Sacramento River Spawning Habitat Restoration Underway”