Lake Oroville Update for December 20, 2024 ...

Lake Oroville Update - May 15, 2026 ...

Department of Water Resources (DWR) announced an increase to the State Water Project (SWP) allocation for 2026. The allocation is now 45 percent of requested supplies, up from the previous allocation ...

Tucked within the UC Davis campus, a quiet but critically important effort is helping preserve the Longfin Smelt, a vulnerable fish species native to the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta. Scientists with ...

Vernal pools don’t immediately catch the eye’s attention. They're stealthy and scattered across rolling grasslands – hidden beneath layers of vegetation. Appearing seasonally during the cooler months, ...

Lake Oroville Update - April 29, 2026 ...

State of California California State University, East Bay, research technician Daphne Szutu (left), and graduate student research assistant Brandon Broach — both with the Department of Earth, ...

The Department of Water Resources found no measurable snow April 1 at a place in the Sierra Nevada mountains where more than two feet of snow stood in late February.

DWR today conducted the critical April snow survey at Phillips Station and found no measurable snow, a stark indicator of how record hot March temperatures and high elevation rain have erased the ...

Early season heat is rapidly wiping out California’s giant, frozen reservoir – the Sierra Nevada snowpack. Snow is melting fast, even at the highest elevations. In the last 12 days alone, the ...