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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.
Water for Sites Reservoir would come from two general sources: the Sacramento River and local creeks. Water from the Sacramento River is diverted at the existing Red Bluff Pumping Plant, owned by the United States Bureau of Reclamation and operated by the Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority, and at the Hamilton City Pump Station, owned and operated ...
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 San Joaquin River throughout most of the Delta and the lower Sacramento River below its connection to the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel are routinely dredged to allow the passage of large cargo ships. The Sacramento River corridor has been maintained to a depth of 7 ft (2.1 m) as early as 1899, and was deepened to 30 ft (9.1 m) in 1955.
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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 .
Stony Creek is a 73.5-mile (118.3 km)-long [2] tributary of the Sacramento River in Northern California.It drains a watershed of more than 700 square miles (1,800 km 2) on the west side of the Sacramento Valley in Glenn, Colusa, Lake and Tehama Counties.
There are numerous plant and animal species in the riparian zone and entire watershed of Big Chico Creek. A threatened species of Chinook Salmon make annual spawning runs up Big Chico Creek to the area of Higgin's Hole. Among the wildflowers documented in the watershed is the yellow mariposa lily, Calochortus luteus. [4]