Flood Management
3310 El Camino Ave.
Sacramento, CA 95821
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 219000
Sacramento, CA 95821-9000
Publications & Videos
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Brochures &
Fact Sheets- Brochure:
Be Winter Wise
-- Winter weather and flood preparedness before, during, and after the storm. (OES). Last Updated October 1998, (PDF: 233KB)
- Folleto:
Sea Invierno Sabio (Versión Española)
-- Estado de preparación del tiempo y de la inundación del invierno antes, durante, y después de la tormenta. (OES). Last Updated October 1998, (PDF: 233KB)
- Brochure:
Guide for Living By a Levee
-- What you should know about your local levee. Last Updated December 2003, (PDF: 766KB)
- Brochure:
How to Fight Flooding at Home
-- Easy ways to keep water out of your house. (DWR & CCC), Last Updated October 2004, (PDF: 875KB)
- Brochure:
Need for a Permit
-- Answers to encroachment permit questions for homeowners living next to flood control project levees. (The Reclamation Board, February 2005. Last Updated, (PDF: 457KB)
- Fact
Sheet: State-Federal Flood Operations Center
-- Summarizes operations, activation procedures, and contact information for the Flood Center. Last Updated January 2012, (PDF: 86KB)
- Brochure:
California Data Exchange Center
-- CDEC installs, maintains, and operates an extensive hydrologic data collection network including snow, precipitation and river stage sensors. It also provides a centralized location to store and process real-time hydrologic information gathered by various cooperators throughout the California. CDEC then disseminates this information to the cooperators, public and private agencies, and news media. Last Updated November 2004, (PDF: 620KB)
- Fact
Sheet: Sacramento River Flood Control Project Weirs
and Flood Relief Structures
-- Physical and operational overview of the ten project structures. Includes periods of record through 2012. Last Updated November 2012, (PDF: 3.0MB)
- Brochure:
Be Winter Wise
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Maps- Sacramento
and San Joaquin River Systems Schematic
-- Stick figure type schematic of project features. (DWR), Last Updated January 2003, (PDF: 92KB)
- Sacramento
and San Joaquin River Systems Flood Control
Projects and Agencies-- Project maps with local maintaining agencies and their boundaries. (DWR), Last Updated October 2003, (PDF: 1.4MB)
- Sacramento
and San Joaquin River Systems Flood Control Systems
Project Levees and Channels
-- Maps of Sacramento and San Joaquin Flood Control Projects with levees and main features highlighted. (DWR), Last Updated November 2003, (PDF: 807KB)
- Sacramento
River Flood Control Project General Features
-- Overiew map highlighting primary flood control structures. (DWR), Last Updated November 2003, (PDF: 340KB)
- Sacramento
River Flood Control Project Channel Capacities
and Agencies (vertical format)
-- Detailed map of estimated capacities and maintaining agencies. (DWR), Last Updated November 2003, (PDF: 1.4MB)
- Sacramento
River Flood Control Project Channel Capacities
and Agencies (horizontal format)
-- Detailed map of estimated capacities and maintaining agencies. (DWR), Last Updated November 2003, (PDF:1.2MB)
- Sacramento,
Delta, and San Joaquin River Systems Channel Capacities
-- Two-panel map of estimated flood control project channel capacities. (DWR, (PDF: 1.7MB)
- Delta
and San Joaquin River Flood Control System Agencies
-- Detailed map of maintaining agencies from the Delta south to Fresno. (DWR), Last Updated November 2003, (PDF: 630KB)
- Sacramento
and San Joaquin River Systems Schematic
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Flood Operations &
Emergency Response- White
Paper on Flood Management
-- Flood Warnings: Responding to California's Flood Crisis presents an overview of the condition of flood management in the Central Valley and outlines a plan to reduce flood risks through an integrated approach for better planning, new investments, improved management of our infrastructure and closer collaboration between water agencies and users. Last Updated January 2005, (PDF: 1.4MB)
- Bulletin
69-95, California High Water
-- Meteorological and hydrological accounts of the January and March 1995 floods and other flood-related events during the 1994/95 water year. Last Updated October 2003, Multiple linked, (PDF: 405KB)
- Flood
Fighting Methods (Pocket size)
-- Pocket size guide depicts common field methods for flood fighting on levees, river banks, and around structures. Includes safety procedures. Last Updated August 2010, (PDF: 2.2MB)
- Flood
Fighting Methods (Full size)
-- Full size guide depicts common field methods for flood fighting on levees, river banks, and around structures. Includes safety procedures. Last Updated August 2010, (PDF: 8.3MB)
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Flood Levee Threat Monitoring Guidelines
-- Pocket size guide of standardized techniques used by levee maintaining agencies, their engineers, flood fight specialists, and levee inspectors to mark and monitor a levee threat. Last Updated April 2012, (PDF: 1.2MB)
- Flood
Preparedness Guide for Levee Maintaining Agencies
-- Emergency planning guide for local levee maintaining agencies to utilize in developing their emergency plans. FEAT Initiative 3 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services). Last Updated November 1997, (PDF: 28KB)
- Guidelines
for Coordinating Flood Emergency Operations
-- Guide to integrate local agencies that maintain levees and flood control structures into an overall emergency response organization. FEAT Initiative 1 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services). Last Updated November 1997, (PDF: 30KB)
- Protocol
for Closure of Delta Waterways
-- Process for placing restrictions on vessel traffic on Delta waterways during periods of high water levels and flood events. FEAT Initiative 7 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services). Last Updated November 1997, (PDF: 100KB)
- State
Emergency Plan
-- Defines the emergency management system used for all emergencies in California, and the emergency organization which provides the Governor access to public and private resources in times of emergency. (Cal EMA). Last Updated July 2009, (PDF: 1.36MB)
- White
Paper on Flood Management
Contact
the State-Federal Flood Operations Center for information about
these publications or to obtain available hard copies:
California Department of Water Resources
Division of Flood Management
Flood Operations Branch
3310 El Camino Avenue, Suite 200
P.O. Box 219000
Sacramento, CA 95821-9000
(916) 574-2619

