In the last five years, DWR and its partners have restored thousands of acres of tidal wetlands and floodplains along the Sacramento River and in the Delta, where the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers ...

California is taking a new, data-driven approach to capturing floodwaters for groundwater recharge. DWR, in coordination with GEI Consultants, has released the Central Valley Flood-MAR Dashboard for ...

State of California Flood Control Releases Ongoing from Lake Oroville The Department of Water Resources (DWR) continues required flood control releases using Oroville Dam’s main spillway. With reduced ...

DWR, Division of Multibenefit Initiatives has prepared a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (SEIR), which is available for public review and comment.

State of California A drone view of water levels at the Bidwell Bar Bridge located at Lake Oroville in Butte County, California. On this date, the water storage was 2,707,699 acre-feet (AF), 77 ...

Considerable progress has been made to improve flood management in the Central Valley; however, this vast region still faces significant flood risk. Approximately 1 million Californians live and work ...

California Flood Preparedness Week began in 2012 with a single event in Sacramento County and is now in its thirteenth year. DWR supports events across the state, working with federal, state, and ...

State of California SACRAMENTO, Calif. – The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today conducted the fourth snow survey of the season at Phillips Station. The manual survey recorded 126.5 inches of ...

Releases to Feather River (Sum of River Outlet and Diversion Dam Releases) 29,752 10,661 10,661 112,793 ...

Agenda items include election of officers for 2026, Commission annual workplan, Water Storage Investment Program, Water Plan Update, and State Water Project Annual Review.

State of California The California Irrigation Institute (CII) will host its 64th annual conference from January 26-27, 2026, in Sacramento, California. The theme for this year’s conference is ...

The Political Reform Act (Government Code Section 81000, et seq.) requires state and local government agencies to adopt and promulgate conflict of interest codes. A conflict of interest code lists the ...