The Latest Breaking News from Sacramento River

California has added more than 50,000 tons of gravel to a river below Keswick Dam since 2022 to help endangered salmon lay eggs

Below Keswick Dam on California's Sacramento River, salmon face a problem the dam itself created. Winter run Chinook salmon, now listed as endangered, once spawned across hundreds of miles of cold mountain streams before Shasta and Keswick Dams cut off access to that historic habitat entirely. Confined now to a…

The Times of India · Aug 14

Newsom Defies Environmentalist Opposition To Build Badly Needed Water Tunnel

The long-planned tunnel will bring water from the Sacramento River to the state's dry southern regions.

Reason · Dec 29, 2023

Amid soaking storms, California turns to farmland to funnel water into depleted aquifers

DUNNIGAN, Calif. — As storms have drenched Northern California, water diverted from the swollen Sacramento River has been flowing from a canal and pouring onto 200 acres of farmland.

Los Angeles Times · Mar 23, 2023

California deepens water cuts to cope with drought, hitting thousands of farms

California regulators have begun curtailing the water rights of many farms and irrigation districts along the Sacramento River, forcing growers to stop diverting water from the river and its tributaries.

Los Angeles Times · Jul 8, 2022

California drought resurrects decades-old plan for controversial Sites Reservoir

MAXWELL, Calif. — A long-dead proposal to flood a bucolic valley north of Sacramento and create a massive reservoir for thirsty Southern California is finding new life — and opposition — amid the effects of climate change and worsening drought.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 2, 2022

Wildlife officials truck Chinook salmon to cooler waters in emergency move to help them spawn

In a stopgap measure to help struggling spring- and winter-run Chinook salmon spawn in the face of rising water temperatures and lower water levels due to climate change, state and federal wildlife officials in Northern California have begun trucking adult fish to cooler waters.

Los Angeles Times · May 20, 2022