Yolo Bypass occupies a historic floodplain between Davis and
Sacramento, California. The Yolo Bypass is part of a larger
engineered system developed on the Sacramento River to
provide bypass flood areas, which act as catch basins to
deter flooding in communities such as Sacramento and West
Sacramento.
The Yuba River is a major tributary
to the Feather River and the larger Sacramento River watershed with
an average annual runoff of about 2.4 million acre-feet. The
river originates high in the snow-capped Sierra Nevada and flows through
granitic canyons and rolling foothills before joining the Feather
River at Yuba City.
