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The Sutter Basin is a area of the
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
map of area
Sacramento Valley
The Sacramento Valley is the area of the Central Valley of the U.S. state of California that lies north of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and is drained by the Sacramento River. It encompasses all or parts of ten Northern California ...
in the U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its so ...
of California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. It borders Oregon to the north, Nevada and Arizona to the east, and shares Mexico–United States border, an ...
, 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 ...
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land in which 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 (Maiduan languages, Maidu: ''Histum Yani'' or ''Esto Yamani'', Wintuan languages, Wintun: ''Olonai-Tol'', Nisenan language, Nisenan: ''Estom Yanim'') are a small circular complex of eroded volcanic lava domes which rise as but ...
to the Feather River at . During Sacramento River
The Sacramento River () 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–San Joaquin River D ...
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 , c ...
, 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 ...
.map of area
See also
* Feather Headwaters *Yolo Bypass
The Yolo Bypass is one of the two flood bypasses in California's Sacramento Valley located in Yolo and Solano Counties. Through a system of weirs, the bypass diverts floodwaters from the Sacramento River away from the state's capital city of Sa ...
References
{{Reflist, 2 Watersheds of California Landforms of Sutter County, California