The Sutter Basin is a area of the

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in the

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California California is a state in the Western United States, located along the Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the most populous U.S. state and the 3rd largest by area. It is also the ...

, and is part of the

Feather River The Feather River is the principal tributary of the Sacramento River, in the Sacramento Valley of Northern California. The river's main stem is about long. Its length to its most distant headwater tributary is just over . The main stem Feather R ...

drainage basin A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, ...

. The basin includes the Sutter Basin Fire Protection District of ~ and uses irrigation from the Thermalito Afterbay's Sutter-Butte Canal. The Feather River and the Sutter By-Pass are the basin's east and southwest borders.

Sutter Bypass

The Sutter Bypass is a leveed channel of the Lower Sacramento Valley Flood-Control System along the southwest portion of the Sutter Basin. The bypass allows channeling of escapement flow from the Tisdale Weir near the

Sutter Buttes The Sutter Buttes (Maidu: ''Histum Yani'' or ''Esto Yamani'', Wintun: ''Olonai-Tol'', Nisenan: ''Estom Yanim'') are a small circular complex of eroded volcanic lava domes which rise as buttes above the flat plains of the Sacramento Valley in Su ...

to the Feather River at . During

Sacramento River The Sacramento River ( es, Río Sacramento) is the principal river of Northern California in the United States and is the largest river in California. Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for before reaching the Sacramento–S ...

flows of >, Sacramento overflow tops the Tisdale Weir and flows via the Sutter Bypass to Feather River mile 7 (the west levee of the bypass continues along the Feather River to the Sacramento River). The bypass also receives similar Sacramento escapement flow from the Colusa Weir, and the Snake River, Gilsizer Slough, Wadsworth Canal, and other west side watercourses of the Lower Feather Watershed also drain to the Feather River via the Sutter Bypass, The bypass includes of the

Sutter National Wildlife Refuge Sutter National Wildlife Refuge, the southernmost refuge in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, is located in the Sacramento Valley of California, about north of the metropolitan area of Sacramento. The refuge consists of about , con ...

, which is part of California's ~

Sutter Bypass Wildlife Area Sutter may refer to: People * Sutter (surname), a list of people with this name * John Augustus Sutter, Sr. (1803–1880), Californian pioneer and founder of Sutter's Fort ** John Augustus Sutter, Jr. (1826–1897), his son, a U.S. Consul to Acap ...

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map of area

References

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Sutter Bypass

See also

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