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The California Department of Water Resources's schematic map of the Yolo Bypass, 2009. Congress approved the Sacramento River Flood Control Project in 1911, with a plan to divert the water through multiple weirs and bypasses. The Yolo Bypass is one of two major bypasses in the Sacramento Valley that helps deter urban flooding. [5]
The Great Flood of 1862 was the largest flood in the recorded history of California, Oregon, and Nevada, inundating the western United States and portions of British Columbia and Mexico. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862.
View east towards Sacramento during 2017 winter flooding; traffic on I-80 travels over the Yolo Causeway, on the right hand side of the photograph. In 2018, Caltrans announced plans to extend the carpool lane along I-80 from Solano County to Sacramento County, which includes plans to widen the causeway to four lanes in each direction. The ...
A Flood Advisory is in effect until 11 pm tonight for portions of Placer, Sacramento, Yolo, and Sutter counties. Impacts include: local flooding of roadways, urban areas, small streams, and creeks.
A USGS model image shows the enormous atmospheric river that may have been present during the 1861–1862 flood event.. The ARkStorm (for Atmospheric River 1,000) is a hypothetical megastorm, whose proposal is based on repeated historical occurrences of atmospheric rivers and other major rain events first developed and published by the Multi-Hazards Demonstration Project (MHDP) of the United ...
Pouring rain could cause some flooding in the Sacramento area on Monday, the National Weather Service warns. The agency issued a flood watch early Monday morning that will last through 4 a.m ...
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The worst flooding occurred on the Feather River on January 2. The river stage height peaked at 50.4 at Nicolaus (2.4 feet above flood stage). Multiple levees broke along the river causing significant flooding to Marysville and Arboga. A levee break south of Yuba City devastated the town of Olivehurst.
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