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A diversion headworks and settling basin on the south bank of the Sacramento River originally provided a gravity flow of water to two aqueducts, the Tehama-Colusa Canal and Corning Canal. The headworks consist of six 11.5-by-10-foot (3.5 m × 3.0 m) radial gates with a capacity of 3,100 cubic feet per second (88 m 3 /s). [6]
The Sacramento Weir is opened manually when the Sacramento River reaches 27.5 feet (8.4 m) at the I Street Bridge. It was built in 1916 by the City of Sacramento and contains 48 gates over its 1,920-foot (590 m) length; water from the Sacramento Weir flows through the 1 mile (1.6 km) long Sacramento Bypass and drains into the Yolo Bypass. [ 6 ]
The Mad River (Wiyot: Baduwa't [4]) is a river in upper Northern California.It flows for 113 miles (182 km) [3] in a roughly northwest direction through Trinity County and then Humboldt County, draining a 497-square-mile (1,290 km 2) watershed into the Pacific Ocean north of the town of Arcata near [California Redwood Coast-Humboldt County Airport [5]] in McKinleyville.
Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (splits from the Sacramento River upstream at the Port of Sacramento) Prospect Slough Dickson Creek; Lindsey Slough; Shag Slough; Yolo Bypass (jump to tributaries) – manmade floodway, occasionally receiving floodwaters from the Sacramento River via Fremont Weir near Knights Landing. Alamo Creek; Ulatis Creek
Ruth Reservoir (also known as Ruth Lake) is the only reservoir on California's Mad River.The reservoir and adjacent community were named for early settler Ruth McKnight. The reservoir was formed by construction of R. W. Matthews Dam in 1962 (63 years ago) () primarily for domestic and industrial water supply to Arcata, Eureka, and other communities around Humboldt B
Caney Creek rises 1 mile south of Matthews in Colorado County "within the maze of irrigation canals, dead-water sloughs, and old stream channels" at the northern edge of Wharton County. From there, Caney Creek flows 155 miles (249 km) southeast before discharging into the Intracoastal Waterway a distance of 5.5 miles (8.9 km) southeast of Sargent.
Following Hurricane Helene, the Tennessee River water level is higher near downtown Knoxville on Sept. 29, 2024. One non-power TVA dam narrowly avoided failure during the flooding after Helene: ...
The Texas coastline has changed significantly over the past million years as a result of sea level fluctuations, caused mainly by the passing of glacial periods. The current chain of barrier islands and peninsulas formed between 8,000 and 5,000 years ago as the Gulf of Mexico stabilized around its current level after the end of the Last Glacial ...