Northern California water suppliers joined with farmers, fishery agencies, California Trout, and Ducks Unlimited this week at the Wallace Weir along the Yolo Bypass to appreciate the recent rains and to showcase the various efforts to improve salmon habitat in the Sacramento Valley. The following video with RD 108 General Manager Lewis Bair describes this collaboration and the Sacramento Valley Salmon Recovery Program.

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…..”