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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
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
Knoxville residents can rest assured: Even as Douglas Dam spills record levels of water into the French Broad River − and then into the Tennessee River − water levels around the city will ...
Water for Sites Reservoir would come from two general sources: the Sacramento River and local creeks. Water from the Sacramento River is diverted at the existing Red Bluff Pumping Plant, owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and operated by the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority, and at the Hamilton City Pump Station, owned and operated ...
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]
Stony Creek is a 73.5-mile (118.3 km)-long [2] tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California.It drains a watershed of more than 700 square miles (1,800 km 2) on the west side of the Sacramento Valley in Glenn, Colusa, Lake and Tehama Counties.
Feb 24 - Miller & Lux legal fight against the Madera Irrigation District to take water from the San Joaquin River [48] Feb 25 - Major Water and Power rationing announced due to Northern California drought [49] Feb 26 - The Sacramento Valley water and irrigation congress asks governor to call a special legislative session on drought [50] Mar 13 ...