Watershed Health

PG&E announced December 3, 2024, that the Butte Canal, fed by the diversion at Butte Head Dam will not be put back in service after the disastrous failure August 9, 2023. Final disposition of the canal will be decided in 2025. This leaves the full flow of Butte Creek below Butte Head dam in the … Read more

The Dixie Fire burned nearly a million acres starting in Butte County and roaring up the Feather River into Plumas County and on into Lassen National Park.The fire flanked into the High Lakes, skirted Phillbrook and Round Valley Reservoirs in the West Branch of the Feather and slopped over in to upper Butte Creek around … Read more