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French drain. A French drain[1] (also known by other names including trench drain, blind drain, [1] rubble drain, [1] and rock drain[1]) is a trench filled with gravel or rock, or both, with or without a perforated pipe that redirects surface water and groundwater away from an area. The perforated pipe is called a weeping tile (also called a ...
The Governor Edmund G. Brown California Aqueduct is a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water collected from the Sierra Nevada Mountains and valleys of Northern and Central California to Southern California. [4] Named after California Governor Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown Sr., the over 400-mile (640 km) aqueduct is the ...
Marsh Creek. Mokelumne River (jump to tributaries) Old River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Middle River (side channel of San Joaquin River) Bear Creek. Calaveras River (jump to tributaries) Mormon Slough (distributary of Calaveras River) French Camp Slough. Littlejohns Creek.
The Shasta River is a tributary of the Klamath River, approximately 58 miles (93 km) long, [4] in northern California in the United States. It drains the Shasta Valley on the west and north sides of Mount Shasta in the Cascade Range. The river rises in southern Siskiyou County on the edge of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, approximately 10 ...
The oldest rocks in California date back 1.8 billion years to the Proterozoic and are found in the San Gabriel Mountains, San Bernardino Mountains, and Mojave Desert.The rocks of eastern California formed a shallow continental shelf, with massive deposition of limestone during the Paleozoic, and sediments from this time are common in the Sierra Nevada, Klamath Mountains and eastern Transverse ...
A French drain is a trench that diverts water away from an area where it's pooling to a lower elevation where it can be released, explains Mike Arnold, director of The Gardens at Texas A&M ...
The river drains 1,345 square miles (3,480 km 2), [2] mostly in the western slope and foothills of the Sierra Nevada. The average runoff of the Yuba River basin is approximately 2,303,000 acre-feet (2.841 km 3 ) per year, [ 4 ] providing about one-third of the flow of the Feather River, and 10 percent of the flow of the Sacramento River , which ...
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]