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Barely beyond a stub. The importance of this resource in California is high. Needs expansion in fisheries, overall ecology, history, water politics. Anlace 00:03, 23 October 2006 (UTC)
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I added an infobox and filled in what I could find, but I'm not particularly happy with the numbers. The source elevation is based on my guess that it is approximately equal to the base elevation of Mount Shasta. Also, the best I could find for discharge rate and watershed area was from http://pubs.usgs.gov/circ/circ1215/introduction.htm, which says only that the discharge is 27 billion cubic meters per year and that the watershed area is 70,000 square kilometers - I'm sure that there are more accurate numbers somewhere, but I couldn't find them. Rkstafford 22:24, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
Where in the world do you get the average discharge of the Colorado being 4000 cfs Pfly? According to USGS and wikipedia the mean volume of the Colorado River is 22,000 cfs. So yes that would put it behind the Sacramento in discharge. Just look at USGS realtime data though and you will find the Colorado below Hoover, Davis, and Parker dams is usually 15,000 - 25,000 cfs, NOT 4000 cfs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.116.24 ( talk) 21:37, 1 July 2010 (UTC)
Flows below Parker and Davis Dam right now are both over 21,000 cfs and are often up to 26,000 cfs and higher this time of year due to power generation. At other times of the year they are as low as 14,000 or so cfs. Most of the water diverted in the Colorado is diverted at Imperial Dam for the All American Canal and also into the Gila Gravity Canal for Arizona. Little to no water usually reaches the sea from the Colorado. Municipal use for the Colorado accounts for very little of the water diverted, almost all is for irrigation. However 22,000 cfs on average seems a bit right as a mean annual flow of the Colorado BEFORE water diversion (primarly Imperial Dam, and to a much lesser extent Palo Verde Dam). Twenty two thousand is the USGS figure and I believe 30,000 cfs is it's figure for the Sac, so the Sac is SLIGHTLY larger. Both are still pretty small compared to the Columbia or Mississippi, but both the Sac and the Colorado are big rivers compared to most as far as rivers go. —Preceding
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Not sure how that "320 miles" got inserted for the Sacramento River length. Even a quick measurement on a map as reduced as the National Geographic World Atlas comes to nearly 400 miles (you can't cut corners on the bends!), and, when it's done properly by USGS using their 1:24,000 scale topos as is standard, you get 447 miles. USGS topos can be viewed (and rivers measured) at www.topozone.com. The longest and largest river entirely in one state is the Kuskokwim in Alaska, 720 miles long and a 41,000 cubic ft./sec. average discharge. It's followed by: 2. Trinity River, Texas 710 / 7,100 3. Sacramento - Pit, California 690 / 15,000 4. Tanana, Alaska 660 / 24,000 5. Koyukuk, Alaska 520 / 14,000 6. Innoko, Alaska 500 7. Altamaha, Georgia 470 / 14,000 8. Yazoo, Mississippi 465 / 10,000 9. Guadalupe, Texas 460 / 2,100 10. Kentucky, Kentucky 430 / 8,300 11. Salmon, Idaho 420 / 11,000 12. James, Virginia 410 / 7,500 River lengths are always measured in official lists along the longest watercourse (longest source, regardless of what name it carries....i.e. MS-MO-Beaverhead-Red Rock) (in this case, the Sacramento to the Pit to the S. Fork Pit - West Valley Cr. - Cedar Cr.) Sources: USGS and World Facts and Figures (John Wiley and Sons) DLinth ( talk) 17:13, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
All of the numbers past 6 are not displaying – any ideas as to why? Shannon talk contribs 03:48, 10 April 2011 (UTC)
The Sacramento DOES NOT have a significantly greater flow than the Colorado. I would say the historical discharge of the Sacramento being slightly under 24,000 cfs is NOT significantly greater than the Colorado's 22,000 cfs historical discharge, but SLIGHTLY greater. In fact, during times of high electric power generation, the Colorado carries a greater flow than the Sacramento, often exceeding 25,000 cfs. Overall the discharge of the Colorado is a BIT lower, but not SIGNIFICANTLY lower. Water use in the Colorado began before use in the Sacramento, and flow records only go back over 100 years or so, so who knows which river really has the greater discharge because it's so close. So this is the reason for my edit saying the Sacramento is SLIGHTLY larger. Even if you use a rough historical flow of 30,000 cfs for the Sacramento, that's not SIGNIFICANTLY greater than the Colorado, but SLIGHTLY! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.119.2 ( talk) 05:20, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
To further add to this, much of the modern data on Colorado River flows are skewed because it took years to fill the reservoirs behind the dams, so the flow was much lower than it is today during the years the reservoirs were filling. The flows on the Colorado do not plummet until the All American Canal and a normal 15,155 cfs are removed at Imperial Dam near Yuma. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.119.2 ( talk) 05:27, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
People need to quit saying the Sacramento's flow is significantly larger than the Colorado. The Sacramento's discharge of 23,400 cfs is SLIGHTLY larger than the Colorado's 22,000 cfs. The discussion is showing that the Klamath and Skagit Rivers have flow close to the Sacramento, but both rivers are smaller than the Colorado. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.119.2 ( talk) 23:02, 15 November 2011 (UTC)
Really, 23,400 and 22,000 are slight in difference, not significant. Get your facts straight PLEASE. Stop undoing a common sense edit. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.127.119.2 ( talk) 06:31, 17 November 2011 (UTC)
"The last outflow from Goose Lake (into the Pit-northernmost tributary of the Sac River) was in 1880."
US Army Corps of Engineers: Chapter 3: Central Valley Flood Management Systems
Therefore, the watershed of the Sacramento only historically reaches into Southern Oregon. With water diversion, and climate change, who knows if the Pit (and by extension, the Sacramento) will ever again see water from Oregon. Its not likely as the lake is in decline. Norcalal ( talk) 05:29, 28 April 2012 (UTC)
There is no data about the location of the head of tide, nor is the word "tide" even mentioned in this large article. 71.63.160.210 ( talk) 22:41, 13 August 2021 (UTC)
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There are multiple managing authorities and policy makers for the Sacramento river. They are not easily identified. A section about how the river is managed and by what authorities would be useful to nautical visitors. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.77.212.57 ( talk) 20:00, 17 August 2019 (UTC)
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