Visit Oroville and Shasta Dams, Rice Farms, Wetlands and More During a Virtual Journey through Northern California
Spend an afternoon touring the region virtually and participating in a live Q&A with experts
Sign up for next week’s Nov. 12
virtual Northern California
Tour, which will take you through a region key to
water supply for much of the state.
During the three-hour online event, you’ll get up close to Oroville Dam and learn how its two spillways were repaired following a catastrophic 2017 storm. You’ll also visit rice farms and wetlands in the Sacramento Valley, and hear from farmers and environmentalists about efforts to restore runs of endangered chinook salmon and help birds along the Pacific Flyway. You’ll also visit Shasta Dam and the area being eyed for the proposed Sites Reservoir. Get your ticket for the “bus” here.
The Northern California Tour is one
of several virtual tours being offered this fall to explore the
vital role water plays in California’s economy, its environment
and its communities.
All tours will run from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m., taking you close up to key water facilities, farms and environmental restoration projects and giving you a chance to talk with experts during a live Q&A following each video tour.
Check out the other virtual journeys below:
Bay-Delta Tour: Nov. 10
If you missed last month’s sold-out
Bay-Delta Tour, you can join us next Tuesday (Nov. 10) for an
encore presentation that will include the video tour and a live
Q&A with key experts on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the
state’s vital water hub and the West Coast’s largest freshwater
tidal estuary. You’ll learn about Delta ecosystem restoration,
impacts to ocean fisheries from changes in the Delta, agriculture
and municipal water use and the Delta’s role in supplying water
to Southern California. You’ll hear from farmers, fish
biologists, water managers, people working on restoration
efforts, and more! Get tickets
here!
Central Valley Tour: Nov. 19
On our Nov. 19 Central Valley Tour,
we’ll take you to the San Joaquin Valley to hear how farmers in
one of the nation’s most productive agricultural regions manage
surface water for various crops and orchards, and how they are
responding to mandates under the state’s Sustainable Groundwater
Management Act. You’ll also hear from the valley’s disadvantaged
communities, and learn how subsidence from groundwater
pumping is affecting surface water facilities. You’ll visit key
infrastructure, including San Luis Reservoir, Friant Dam and the
Friant-Kern Canal. You also learn about managed wetlands, see a
unique feature to one of the region’s rim dams, and hear
about efforts to put water back in the ground. Get tickets here!
San Joaquin River Restoration Tour: Dec. 10
Join us as we explore the San
Joaquin River to learn about one of the nation’s largest and most
expensive river restoration projects. The project is aimed at
restoring flows to a 60-mile, mostly dry stretch of river to
revive chinook salmon runs while reducing or avoiding adverse
water supply impacts to farmers. See hard-to-reach sections of
the river and hear from biologists and farmers about the progress
and challenges involved in bringing salmon back to the San
Joaquin River. Registration coming soon!
A limited number of need-based scholarships are available for the tours. Contact Nick Gray at ngray@watereducation.org for more information.