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The 1997 California New Years Floods resulted from a series of winter storms, from December 26 to January 3 of 1997, fed with tropical moisture by an atmospheric river. It impacted Northern California, resulting in some of the most devastating flooding since the Great Flood of 1862 .
Oroville Dam, an important part of the California State Water Project, is an earthen embankment dam on the Feather River, east of the city of Oroville in Northern California. The dam is used for flood control, water storage, hydroelectric power generation, and water quality improvement in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. [1]:
In the San Joaquin River basin and the Delta, levee breaks along the Mokelumne River caused flooding in the community of Thornton and the inundation of four Delta islands. [1] Lake Tahoe rose 6 inches (150 mm) as a result of high inflow. [28] The California flood resulted in 13 deaths, 50,000 people evacuated and over $400 million in property ...
The Pajaro River levee failure points to hazards that California has yet to address in many areas where communities are vulnerable, experts say. Age, drought, rodents and neglect weaken California ...
On 3 June 2004, the Upper Jones Tract levee near Woodward Island failed, inundating the entire island with more than 150,000 acre⋅ft (190,000,000 m 3) of water.The island, which lies 3 metres below sea level, required three weeks to repair the breach, and an additional five months for de-watering after the pumps were shut down on 18 December 2004. [4]
The 101 Freeway in South San Francisco was shut down for flooding just as New Year's Eve revelers were heading out to celebrate, but reopened a few hours before midnight.
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Levee failures, also known as breaches, can be caused by overtopping or structural failure. One of the most recent examples of levee failure in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta occurred in June 2004 when a levee breach caused more than 150,000 acre-feet (190,000,000 m 3) of water to flood the entire island of Jones Tract. [39]