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Flood Preparedness Week: October 19-26, 2024

During the rainy season, the risk of catastrophic floods exists. Learn about ways to protect your family and home.

Flood Projects

California’s extensive flood management system reduces risk and protects communities from potentially catastrophic flooding and loss of life and property. The f ...

Flood Risk Notification

Millions of Californians are at risk from flooding along thousands of miles of streams, rivers, lakes and coastline. Floods can bring devastating impacts to reg ...

Flood-Managed Aquifer Recharge (Flood-MAR)

Flood-MAR is a resource management strategy that uses flood water resulting from rainfall or snow melt for managed aquifer recharge (MAR) on agricultural lands ...

Flood-MAR Tribal Listening Session

Flood-MAR Tribal Listening Session

Flood-MAR Virtual Public Forum

The third Flood-MAR Virtual Public Forum will occur November 8-10, 2021 to continue exploring technical, socioeconomic, regulatory, and policy considerations to ...

Flood-MAR: Harnessing Flood Waters to Advance Sustainable Water Management

California is known for its variable climate. Climate change will only exacerbate this variability, so water managers are eyeing a way to capitalize on the extr ...

Floodplain Management Review Course - San Jose

This one-day workshop is designed to review basic floodplain management principles for those who are considering taking the examination to become Certified Floo ...

Floodplain Management, Protection, and Risk Awareness Grant Program

The Floodplain Management, Protection and Risk Awareness (FMPRA) Grant Program supports local agency efforts to prepare for flooding by providing financial assi ...

Forecasted State Water Project Water Supply Allocation Doubles Following February Storms

The Department of Water Resources (DWR) today announced a second increase in the State Water Project (SWP) allocation forecast for 2024.

Former DWR Director Honored as Distinguished Alumni at UC Berkeley Civil and Environmental Engineering Department

David Kennedy, DWR Director from 1983 to 1998, was recently honored as Distinguished Alumni in Memoriam for 2020 by the UC Berkeley’s Civil and Environmental En ...

Former DWR Director Ronald B. Robie Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award

Justice Ronald B. Robie, who served as DWR's fifth director, was honored with a Lifetime Achievement Award from the California Lawyers Association’s Environment ...

Fourth Phillips Station Snow Survey of 2019

DWR will conduct the fourth snow survey media availability of the season. Join DWR staff via Facebook Live as they measure water content in the snowpack.

Free Leak Detection Workshop

Leak detection workshop sponsored by DWR and conducted by California Rural Water Association

Free Leak Detection Workshop

Leak detection workshop sponsored by DWR and conducted by California Rural Water Association.

Fremont Weir Groundbreaking Marks Milestone for Yolo Bypass Fish Passage

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR), U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, and California Natural Resources Agency celebrated the groundbreaking of a criti ...

Fremont Weir Upgrade Successfully Balances Need for Infrastructure and Ecosystem Preservation

The Fremont Weir Adult Fish Passage Modification Project, which began modified operations in January of 2019, has successfully allowed thousands of migrating fi ...

From Dust to Pupfish: Salton Sea Species Conservation Habitat Project Breaks Ground

Last week a fleet of bulldozers and other heavy equipment began the enormous task of moving roughly 5 million cubic yards of soil around a 4,110-acre area of dr ...

Fuel Reduction Projects Continue to Reduce Wildfire Threats Around Lake Oroville

The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and CAL FIRE/Butte County Fire Department have jointly launched two major fuel reduction projects designed t ...

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