October 7 - 9

Northern California Tour

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. Other highlights: dinner by the river and 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.

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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