Lower Sacramento River Closed to Boat Traffic at Cypress Bridge
By Tom Chandler on Apr 13, 2008 in News
The Lower Sacramento River’s been closed to boat traffic due to an ill-planned construction project at the Cypress Street bridge, so plan your lower Sacramento trips accordingly.
A citizen’s advisory group recommended boaters be prevented from floating under the bridge at 10,000 cfs flows, but the Redding City Council dropped those numbers to 7,000 cfs, and promptly closed the river at Cypress when the Bureau of Reclamation upped flows past 7,000 cfs seveal weeks early.
If you’re unfamiliar with this absolute hummer of a construction project, it’s the product of a typically obstuse planning phase that apparently didn’t figure river-borne recreation into the equation.
Read the Redding Record Searchlight story for more information.
See you on dry land, Tom Chandler.
Tags: lower sacramento river, cypress street bridge, river closure, fly fishing
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