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Flood Operations and Emergency Response
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Flood Operations and Emergency Response:

• Bulletin 69-95, California High Water -- Meteorological and hydrological accounts of the January and March 1995 floods and other flood-related events during the 1994/95 water year. (October 2003, Multiple linked )
• Flood Fighting Methods -- Pocket size guide depicts common field methods for flood fighting on levees, river banks, and around structures. Includes safety procedures. (August 2003, 1.0Mb, )
• Flood Preparedness Guide for Levee Maintaining Agencies -- Emergency planning guide for local levee maintaining agencies to utilize in developing their emergency plans. FEAT Initiative 3 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services, November 1997, 28Kb, )
• Guidelines for Coordinating Flood Emergency Operations -- Guide to integrate local agencies that maintain levees and flood control structures into an overall emergency response organization. FEAT Initiative 1 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services, November 1997, 30Kb, )
• Jones Tract News Archive (PAO) -- Chronicles the Jones Tract disaster beginning with the collapse of a Middle River levee section on June 3, 2004.
• Protocol for Closure of Delta Waterways -- Process for placing restrictions on vessel traffic on Delta waterways during periods of high water levels and flood events. FEAT Initiative 7 (Governor's Office of Emergency Services, November 1997, 100Kb, )
• State Emergency Plan -- Defines the emergency management system used for all emergencies in California, and the emergency organization which provides the Governor access to public and private resources in times of emergency. (OES, May 1998, 435Kb, )
• White Paper on Flood Management -- Flood Warnings: Responding to California's Flood Crisis presents an overview of the condition of flood management in the Central Valley and outlines a plan to reduce flood risks through an integrated approach for better planning, new investments, improved management of our infrastructure and closer collaboration between water agencies and users.
  (January 2005, 1.4Mb, Or view video (16Mb .wmv)

Brochures and Fact Sheets:

• Brochure: Be Winter Wise -- Winter weather and flood preparedness before, during, and after the storm. (OES, October 1998, 233Kb, )
• Folleto: Sea Invierno Sabio (Versión Española) -- Estado de preparación del tiempo y de la inundación del invierno antes, durante, y después de la tormenta. (OES, October 1998, 233Kb, )
• Brochure: California Data Exchange Center -- CDEC installs, maintains, and operates an extensive hydrologic data collection network including snow, precipitation and river stage sensors. It also provides a centralized location to store and process real-time hydrologic information gathered by various cooperators throughout the California. CDEC then disseminates this information to the cooperators, public and private agencies, and news media. (November 2004, 620Kb, )
• Brochure: Guide for Living By a Levee -- What you should know about your local levee. (December 2003, 766Kb, )
• Brochure: How to Fight Flooding at Home -- Easy ways to keep water out of your house. (DWR & CCC, October 2004, 875Kb, )
• Brochure: Need for a Permit -- Answers to encroachment permit questions for homeowners living next to flood control project levees. (The Reclamation Board, February 2005, 457Kb, )
• Fact Sheet: State-Federal Flood Operations Center -- Summarizes operations, activation procedures, and contact information for the Flood Center. (June 2005, 100Kb, )
• Fact Sheet: Sacramento River Flood Control Project Weirs and Flood Relief Structures -- Physical and operational overview of the ten project structures. Includes periods of record through 1995. (October 2003, 3.5Mb, )

Maps:

• Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems Schematic -- Stick figure type schematic of project features. (DWR, January 2003, 92Kb, )
• Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems Flood Control Projects and Agencies -- Project maps with local maintaining agencies and their boundaries. (DWR, October 2003, 1.4Mb, )
• Sacramento and San Joaquin River Systems Flood Control Systems Project Levees and Channels -- Maps of Sacramento and San Joaquin Flood Control Projects with levees and main features highlighted. (DWR, November 2003, 807Kb, )
• Sacramento River Flood Control Project General Features -- Overiew map highlighting primary flood control structures. (DWR, November 2003, 340Kb, )
• Sacramento River Flood Control Project Channel Capacities and Agencies (vertical format) -- Detailed map of estimated capacities and maintaining agencies. (DWR, November 2003, 1.4Mb, )
• Sacramento River Flood Control Project Channel Capacities and Agencies (horizontal format) -- Detailed map of estimated capacities and maintaining agencies. (DWR, November 2003, 1.2Mb, )
• Sacramento, Delta, and San Joaquin River Systems Channel Capacities -- Two-panel map of estimated flood control project channel capacities. (DWR, 1.7Mb, )
• Delta and San Joaquin River Flood Control System Agencies -- Detailed map of maintaining agencies from the Delta south to Fresno. (DWR, November 2003, 630Kb, )

Other DWR Publication Pages

• DWR Publications from Information Services
• DWR News/People, etc.
• Video Catalog

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Contact the State-Federal Flood Operations Center for information about these publications or to obtain available hard copies: