Water Education Foundation: Northern California Tour

• Water Education Foundation
• Sacramento, CA

Join the Water Education Foundation and explore the Sacramento River and its tributaries through a scenic landscape while learning about the issues associated with a key source for the state’s water supply.

All together, the river and its tributaries supply 35 percent of California’s water and feed into two major projects: the State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project.

This 3-day, 2-night excursion travels across the Sacramento Valley and follows the river north from Sacramento through Oroville to Redding and Shasta Lake, where participants will take a houseboat tour. Tour participants will also get an up-close view of Oroville Dam’s repaired main spillway that suffered major damage during a power 2017 storm.

Experts will talk about the history of the Sacramento River as the tour winds through riparian woodland, rice fields, wildlife refuges and nut orchards. The tour will track important water issues for farming and environmental uses, visit the location of the Sites Reservoir and discuss innovativons for flood management, groundwater management and salmon restoration.