Five of the nine flood control reservoirs in Northern and Central California are more than 90 percent of capacity, according to data from the California Department of Water Resources. While ...

California’s two largest reservoirs are releasing water for flood-control safety, a sign of how much rain and snow has fallen this winter even though the drought isn’t over. The releases at ...

Water managers are shifting from flood control to water storage at reservoirs across the California. Folsom Lake is at roughly 70 percent capacity, with about twice the amount of inflow as outflow.

Some residents who are opposed to a large permanent reservoir offered a potential compromise by creating areas that could ...

Area lake levels have risen from recent heavy downpours. But has the potential for flooding increased, too?

How it works "The biggest reservoir in the state is the water stored in the snowpack," said Mike Inamine, executive director of Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency.

The Papio NRD is working on three active reservoir projects with more planned. The goal is to reduce flood risk for neighbors ...

Idaho water case - flood control in Boise reservoirs - may cause 2018 Legislature special session, Supreme Court ruling. Irrigators say water is being released downstream early in the season, and ...

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By 2015, the flood control district had issued a warning in a new report that concluded: "Addicks Reservoir does not have the capacity to accept additional runoff anticipated from land development ...