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 CaliforniaFlood 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 CaliforniaA 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 percent ...

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 CaliforniaSACRAMENTO, 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 ...

In 2014, Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. signed three bills known collectively as the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) . For the first time in its history, California had a framework for ...

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

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(Left to right) State Water Resources Control Board Member Nichole Morgan, State Water Resources Control Board Chairman E. Joaquin Esquivel, California Department of Water Resources ...

California’s Statewide Airborne Electromagnetic Surveys and Preliminary Hydrogeologic Interpretations The California Geologic Survey’s California Geology Magazine 2024 issue features a full-length ...