Tag Archives: floodwaters

Can solid flood planning improve all California water planning?

Posted on March 27, 2012 by

Jay R. Lund, The Ray B. Krone Chair of Environmental Engineering, University of California – Davis “No single raindrop believes it is to blame for the flood.”  E.L. Kersten The best time to prepare for floods is during a drought. … Continue reading →

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The benefits of floodplain reconnection

Posted on August 11, 2011 by

Jeffrey Mount, Professor of Geology, UC Davis For more than a century, California has sought to separate floodplains from rivers.  An elaborate array of levees and dams usually confine, divert or capture winter floods, supporting agriculture on rich floodplain soils … Continue reading →

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Frolicking fat floodplain fish feeding furiously

Posted on June 2, 2011 by

Carson Jeffres, fish ecologist, UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences     Spring is here, temperatures are warming, and juvenile salmon have filled the floodplains—a link for them between the gravel bedded rivers where they hatched and the ocean where … Continue reading →

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Water to the sea isn’t wasted

Posted on March 1, 2011 by

Jeffrey Mount, UC Davis Professor of Geology In December of 2010 we had a remarkable set of storms.  Relentless rain and snowfall hit both southern and northern California.  The news reports about these events followed a predictable pattern, including the … Continue reading →

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