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  • April

    Flooding near the Sutter Buttes, Calif., in 1997.

    State, Corps study: One in five Californians faces flood threat

    “California’s Flood Future: Recommendations for Managing California’s Flood Risk,” a report developed collaboratively by the state of California and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, describes for the first time the specific flood threats and their consequences in every county in California.

  • February

    Willow poles planted along the Sacramento River levee near Paintersville, Calif., Feb. 11, 2013 will provide shaded riparian habitat for threatened fish species. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District project aims to preserve riparian habitat following emergency levee erosion repairs between 2007 and 2009. The Sacramento District worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to design the project for habitat benefit, and is the first Corps district to receive a variance under the Corps’ levee vegetation policy to plant willows near the levee after engineering analysis showed they won’t threaten the levee.

    Willow poles along Sacramento River help fish, won’t harm levees

    A U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District project to plant willow poles along 30,000 feet of levees in the Sacramento and San Joaquin river systems is under way, designed to preserve habitat for threatened fish.

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