Yuba
Watershed
~ Nevada City
Drinking Water Tour
Meet Your River
With Us
Next Yuba Watershed Tour:
Sat. Sept 27, 2025
Drinking Water
Reservoirs Tour
(8 hrs) ($125)
The Yuba ~ is there a more
magical river in these mountains?
On this Watershed Witness Tour,
we’ll imagine the profound
depths and breadth of magic
that the Nisenan tended ~
before the Yuba
became the first river
strangled through a cannon,
smashing its own mountain,
thirsty for gold ~
We’ll learn how increasing
impositions on the Yuba
for the sake of drinking water,
agricultural needs, energy generation,
and flood control ~ create one of
the most complex water systems
in the country ~ while hopefully
protecting this area from the worst
challenges of climate chaos.
August 2025 marked the
first re-supply of drinking water
into Scotts Flat and Rollins Reservoirs,
slowly replenishing water shortages
caused by catastrophic failures
of NID powerhouses and canals in 2024,
preventing robust headwater reservoirs
from reaching customers downstream ~
we’ll check out the ongoing repairs of
these fragile water arteries
the entire Yuba region relies on.
Places Our Tour Caravan
may visit along the Yuba:
~ Angkula Seo Suspension Bridge
~ Scotts Flat Dam
~ Dredger Ponds
~ Englebright Dam
~ Longest Covered Bridge
~ New Bullards Bar Dam
~ Our House Dam
~ Lake Spaulding
~ Emerald Pools
~ Headwater Lakes
