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The Sacramento River Flood Control Project was authorized by the federal government in 1917. While it intended to contain minor floods in the river banks by strengthening the existing levee system, the main feature was a series of bypasses, or sections of the valley intentionally designed to flood during high water.
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 other bypass is the Sutter Bypass, which lies upstream of the Yolo Bypass. [6]
The Flood Control Act of 1928 (FCA 1928) (70th United States Congress, Sess. 1.Ch. 569, enacted May 15, 1928) authorized the United States Army Corps of Engineers to design and construct projects for the control of floods on the Mississippi River and its tributaries as well as the Sacramento River in California. [1]
Five of the six weirs in the DWR's Sacramento River Flood Control Project have passively opened after being triggered by overtopped systems. The sixth requires manual activation.
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The flood control strategies for the Sacramento and San Joaquin River Watersheds devised by the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, meanwhile, is a comparable pittance, at “only” $25 ...
Shasta Dam serves mainly to provide flood control and carryover water storage for the dry season, contributing greatly to irrigation in the Sacramento Valley and navigation on the Sacramento River, as well as keeping freshwater levels in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta high enough for diversion into the California Aqueduct and Delta-Mendota ...
Sacramento high risk for river flooding. The American River drains more than 2,100 square miles of watershed down through a flood control system that protects over 530,000 people and 83,000 ...