YOLO COUNTY (CBS13) – For the first time in more than a decade, the gates to the Sacramento Weir are open. Water officials opened the weir around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. It's all an effort to alleviate ...

TO PREVENT DISASTROUS FLOODING. RELENTLESS RAIN HAMMERED THE REGION, CAUSING RIVERS TO QUICKLY RISE. >> WE MONITOR THAT LEVEL AND DETERMINES WHETHER OR NOT WE HAVE TO OPEN OR CLOSE THE WEIR. SHOW: THE ...

WEST SACRAMENTO – Water can be seen coming over the gates at the Sacramento Weir on Wednesday as the leading edge of a significant storm hits Northern California. The weir is one of several along the ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — During Sacramento’s centuries-long ...

SENT RIGHT TO YOUR PHONE. LET’S GO TO SOME BREAKING NEWS NOW. THE EXPANSION OF THE SACRAMENTO WEIR WILL BE DELAYED BY A YEAR. NOW THE WEIR IS ABOUT FOUR MILES UPSTREAM FROM TOWER BRIDGE. IT WAS BUILT ...

Major infrastructure projects are underway in the famously flood-prone region to shore up levees and improve the Sacramento Weir. But some of these efforts have run into setbacks and opposition from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. (KTXL) — The California Department of Water ...

In the Sacramento and San Joaquin regions, more than a thousand miles of levees protect farms and communities, but these aging structures are vulnerable to floods and earthquakes. When there is a lot ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District selected Watsonville, Calif.-based Granite Construction Co. for a $172.9-million contract as part of the Sacramento Weir widening project aimed at ...

Officials are lowering the gates of the Sacramento Weir, effectively corking a massive gush of water that helped flood the Yolo Bypass west of Sacramento. After a deluge of heavy rains, crews on Jan.

Jan 10, 6:30 A.M. UPDATE: Round two of a major winter storm arrived early Tuesday in Northern California and Nevada where downpours have already flooded roads and homes and toppled a storied giant ...

The Sacramento Weir is the only manually operated weir on the Sacramento River system. While the system’s five other weirs overflow automatically once the river reaches a certain elevation, the ...