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The Sacramento River (Spanish: Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. [9] Rising in the Klamath Mountains , the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco Bay .
Cottonwood Creek is a major stream and tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California.About 68 miles (109 km) long measured to its uppermost tributaries, the creek drains a large rural area bounded by the crest of the Coast Ranges, traversing the northwestern Sacramento Valley before emptying into the Sacramento River near the town of Cottonwood.
The Sites Reservoir is a proposed offstream reservoir project west of Colusa in the Sacramento Valley of northern California to be built and operated by the Sites Project Authority. The project would divert water from the Sacramento River upstream of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta through existing canals to a new reservoir 14 miles ...
A series of dams in these watersheds would shunt water through interbasin transfers into the Klamath River system. The centerpiece of the project would be a 15-million-acre-foot (19 km 3) reservoir on the Klamath River – the largest man-made lake in California – from where the water would flow through the 60-mile (97 km) Trinity Tunnel into ...
Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $20 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot (11 m) diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by ...
It joins the Sacramento River south of Hamilton City and west of Chico at Sacramento river mile 190 (kilometer 306). [18] The average unimpaired runoff of Stony Creek was 422,000 acre-feet (0.521 km 3) for the period 1921 to 2003, with a maximum of 1,435,000 acre-feet (1.770 km 3) in 1983 and a minimum of 17,000 acre-feet (0.021 km 3) in 1977. [19]
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 ...
Clear Creek is the first major Sacramento River tributary downstream of the Shasta Dam. [ 6 ] Clear Creek originates in the Trinity Mountains , between Shasta Lake and Trinity Lake in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest , and flows into Whiskeytown Lake reservoir, impounded by Whiskeytown Dam .