To sustainably manage the water resources of California, in cooperation with other agencies, to benefit the state’s people and protect, restore, and enhance the natural and human environments.
All people in California are healthy, financially stable, and safe.
Although DWR cannot achieve this vision alone, we are committed to doing our part to make it a reality. View DWR’s Racial Equity Action Plan.
DWR will begin reducing releases from Lake Oroville to the Feather River this afternoon. Water outflows from the lake will be reduced to 27,500 cubic ...
March 20, 2023
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DWR is maintaining releases from Lake Oroville to the Feather River at 35,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), with 23,000 cfs flowing through the low-flo ...
March 19, 2023
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The Department of Water Resources (DWR) is maintaining releases from Lake Oroville to the Feather River at 35,000 cubic feet per second (cfs), with 23 ...
March 18, 2023
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DWR's GHG reduction goal by 2030
Pounds of reinforcing steel on Oroville main spillway
Dams under state's jurisdiction