![Water flows over the four energy dissipator blocks of the Lake Oroville main spillway, as the California Department of Water Resources releases water from the Lake Oroville flood control gates down the main spillway in Butte County, California. Main spillway releases will continue to manage lake levels in anticipation of rain and snowmelt. Photo taken March 7, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_03_07_KJ_0668_Oroville_Release.jpg?mw=200&hash=C231337B831873E4C456A30291988381)
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![Water flows over the four energy dissipator blocks of the Lake Oroville main spillway, as the California Department of Water Resources releases water from the Lake Oroville flood control gates down the main spillway in Butte County, California. Main spillway releases will continue to manage lake levels in anticipation of rain and snowmelt. Photo taken March 7, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_03_07_KJ_0668_Oroville_Release.jpg?mw=200&hash=C231337B831873E4C456A30291988381)
![A rainbow forms as water flows over the four energy dissipator blocks of the Lake Oroville main spillway, as the California Department of Water Resources releases water from the Lake Oroville flood control gates down the main spillway in Butte County, California. Main spillway releases will continue to manage lake levels in anticipation of rain and snowmelt. Photo taken March 7, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_03_07_KJ_0337_Oroville_Release.jpg?mw=200&hash=23DF16D1CFABD634F7A139D686747E34)
![The California Department of Water Resources begins the first 2024 water release from the Lake Oroville flood control gates down the main spillway in Butte County, California. Main spillway releases will continue to manage lake levels in anticipation of rain and snowmelt. Photo taken January 31, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_01_31_AN_080512_Oroville_Spillway.jpg?mw=200&hash=11D6B4EC061F9A6631E48DD0F4C8DC0D)
![Go Golden check presentation to the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District.](/-/media/DWR-Images/People/IMG_0905.jpg?mw=200&hash=3BFFF8E24AED4E76FB4278E193729DB7)
As part of our continued partnership with local experts to make strategic investments in water supply resilience projects across the state, the Department of Water Resources (DWR) presented a $5.5 million grant to the Santa Ynez River Water Conservation District to support groundwater resilience in Central Coast communities, including disadvantaged ...
![The California Department of Water Resources begins the first 2024 water release from the Lake Oroville flood control gates down the main spillway in Butte County, California. Main spillway releases will continue to manage lake levels in anticipation of rain and snowmelt. Photo taken January 31, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_01_31_AN_080322_Oroville_Spillway.jpg?mw=200&hash=7F4B949385B202A35B374A645C37854B)
![A drone view of the California Conservation Corps (CCC) constructing fish habitat structures which will provide juvenile fish safe refuge at Lake Oroville, California using recycled Christmas trees near Bidwell Canyon Marina on January 30, 2024.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Oroville/2024_01_30_AN_0009_Christmas_Trees_Oroville_DRONE.jpg?mw=200&hash=F337A5752093E29D320E61F8ECA6F51F)
Set into the banks of the Sacramento River as it winds its way south from its Mount Shasta headwaters are six large concrete structures which, despite their size, go largely unnoticed until the rains come and the river rises, threatening floods.
![Glen Gordon, engineering geologist with the California Department of Water Resources, measures groundwater levels at a designated monitoring well in Colusa County on March 17, 2016.](/-/media/DWR-Images/Groundwater/KG_GW_well_measure_42084.jpg?mw=200&hash=E356EC00D934A673B00C05E50860516B)
California’s historic effort to bring sustainability to the state’s critically important groundwater basins revealed an increased need for new and easily accessible groundwater data and tools to help local agencies better understand and manage their groundwater basins.