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Description: A sign marks the Sacramento County line on Interstate 5 Bridge over the Sacramento River near Sacramento, Calif., March 21, 2012. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District provides safer river navigation by maintaining 54 wing dam buoys on the Sacramento River between its confluences with the Feather River to the north and the American River to the south.
The Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel was authorized by the River and Harbor Act of 24 July 1946. [4] It is a modification of, and a supplement to, the Sacramento River Shallow Draft Navigation Project, which was adopted by the River and Harbor Act of 3 March 1899 and was started in September 1899 and completed in 1904.
The Sacramento River watershed is home to about 2.8 million people; more than two-thirds live within the Sacramento metropolitan area. [15] Other important cities are Chico, Redding, Davis and Woodland. The Sacramento River watershed covers all or most of Shasta, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Yuba, Sutter, Lake and Yolo Counties.
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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 U.S. Geological Survey has installed a live, interactive camera at Congaree River below Cayce. The camera lets viewers see current conditions in real time. The camera lets viewers see current ...
Red Bluff Diversion Dam is a disused irrigation diversion dam on the Sacramento River in Tehama County, California, United States, southeast of the city of Red Bluff.Until 2013, the dam provided irrigation water for two canals that serve 150,000 acres (61,000 ha) of farmland on the west side of the Sacramento Valley.
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