September 22-24

Northern California Tour (Field Trip)

This 3-day, 2-night tour travels the length of the Sacramento Valley, a major source of water for California. Stops include Oroville and Shasta dams, Red Bluff Diversion Dam, the Feather River Fish Hatchery and Spring Creek Debris Dam and Iron Mountain Mine Superfund site. Another highlight: a houseboat cruise on Shasta Reservoir. Participants learn about the Central Valley Project Improvement Act, coordinated CVP-SWP operations, farming, groundwater management and conjunctive use and salmon restoration. The tour begins and ends at Sacramento International Airport.

The major sponsors of the 2010 Northern California Tour are the Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region; California Department of Water Resources; Brown and Caldwell; GEI Consultants; George Miller and Janet McKinley; MWH; and PBS&J.

The Water Education Foundation's tours are action-packed field trips that offer participants a firsthand look at the water facilities, rivers and regions critical in the debate about the future of water resources. Issues of water supply, water quality, environmental restoration, flood management, groundwater and water conservation are addressed by a wide-range of speakers representing different viewpoints.

Below are some of the presentations and handouts from the 2009 Northern California Tour.
Northern California Tour Itinerary

Gary Bardini, Chief, Hydrology & Flood Operations, Department of Water Resources
FloodSAFE Overview
Responding to Flood Hazards in California

Stacy Cepello, Environmental Program Manager, Department of Water Resources
What caused the Sacramento River fall Chinook stock collapse?
Pre-publication report to the Pacific Fishery Management Council, March 18, 2009

Steve Emmons, Assistant Refuge Manager, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Jennifer Isola, Fish & Wildlife Biologist, US Fish & Wildlife Service
Delevan Wildlife Refuge Tour Packet

John Ford, Tour Director, Oroville Field Division, Department of Water Resources
Feather River Fish Hatchery Tour

Allan Fulton, UC Davis Extension Office, Chairman of the Tehama County AB3030Groundwater Management Plan Technical Advisory Committee
Tehama County Map
Groundwater Trigger Levels and Awareness Actions for Tehama County

Doug Handen, Construction Manager, Three Rivers Levee Improvement Authority
Dan Wanket, Engineer, GEI
Bear River Setback Levee Fact Sheet
Feather River Setback Levee Fact Sheet
Levee Diagram: Underseepage
Levee Diagram: Through-Seepage
Feather River Levee Improvements
TRLIA Levee Improvements Construction Phases
Feather River Geological Deposit Map
Three Rivers October Report: Page 1
Three Rivers October Report: Page 2

Todd Hillaire, Chief, Flood Management Section, Department of Water Resources
Northern California Tour Maps

Mary Marshall, Battle Creek Restoration Project Manager, Bureau of Reclamation
Battle Creek Salmon & Steelhead Restoration Project

Dan McManus, Hydrogeologist, Department of Water Resources
Northern Sacramento Valley Drought-Related Groundwater Impacts

Jeff Sutton, General Manager, Tehama-Colusa Canal Authority
Fish Passage Educational Pamphlet

Gallery

Tentative Itinerary

Day 1

Sacramento River levees

Plumas Lakes development and Three Rivers Project

Yuba County Water Authority

Feather River Fish Hatchery

Oroville Dam

Rice Farms in Western Canal Water District

Butte Creek Siphon and fish screen

Chico

Day 2

Woodson Bridge State Park on the Sacramento River

Tehama

Red Bluff Diversion Dam

Tehama-Colusa Canal

Shasta Dam

Houseboat tour of Shasta Reservoir

Redding

Day 3

Clair Hill-Whiskeytown Dam Overlook and Visitors Center

Spring Creek Debris Dam and Power House

Iron Mountain Mine treatment plant, Superfund clean up site

Glenn Colusa Irrigation District (GCID) Fish Passage Improvement Project

Delevan Wildlife Refuge

Sites Reservoir proposed project site

Return to Sacramento