Sacramento Weir Opened For First Time In More Than 10 Years

YOLO COUNTY (CBS13) – For the first time in more than a decade, the gates to the Sacramento Weir are open.
Water officials opened the weir around 4:30 a.m. Tuesday. It’s all an effort to alleviate pressure on the Sacramento River levees.
“I think you can see the impacts here. The stages rise, we can have erosion,” said John Ericson with the Department of Water Resources.DWR used a poll to open 7 gates on the Sacramento Weir – the first time that has happened in 10 y