When American settlers arrived in California 150 years ago ... researcher and consultant who has studied flood risk in the Central Valley. “Water is flowing differently because of the subsidence ...

As climate change makes California’s weather whiplash more ... the chair of the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, a state agency that regulates flood control in the region.

Four major rivers empty into the landlocked southern end of the Central Valley ... floods in the 1930s, was built to regulate the flows of the nation's up-again, down-again rivers. California ...

California waterfowl and flocks of migrating birds are now enjoying a rare bounty of water as winter storms and spring snowmelt submerge vast tracts of Central Valley landscape. But even as ...

Nemeth said that as climate change rocks California, the Tulare basin needs to develop the same kind of regional flood planning in place in the rest of the Central Valley, and that it likely will ...

The floodplains of Sacramento are a geologic world away from the more cinematic California of coastal crags and lofty peaks. Yet, that sometimes overlooked region could be home to one of California’s ...

“The nice thing about floods in the Central Valley,” he said, “is they’re usually pretty gradual.” And unlike what California experienced with the great flood of 1862, the state has ...

By Soumya Karlamangla When an “atmospheric river” dumped torrents of rain over the Central ... as are most California farmworkers. That meant that 41 percent of the flood-damaged households ...

“The Central Valley would be in much better shape to weather an extreme flood scenario if all of these measures were put into place.” California has seen disastrous flooding in its pas ...

At the crack of dawn in California’s Central Valley ... beavers and waterfowl. While flooding is now welcome at Dos Rios, for Central Valley farmers and residents, it has long been a demon.

it was resolved under flood insurance but nowhere near what it is now," said Jane Dolan, president of the California Central Valley Flood Protection Board. Dolan says this project could bring the ...