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The Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency plans, designs and coordinates regional flood control improvements to protect lives and property in the Yuba City Basin (sometimes called the Sutter Basin).

The Flood Control Agency's goal is to protect public safety against the ongoing threat of flooding from Sierra storms and snow packs that run off into the region's rivers systems.

The Flood Control Agency is directed by a Board of elected leaders from the Counties of Butte and Sutter and the Cities of Yuba, Live Oak, Gridley and Biggs and Levee Districts 1 and 9.

New: 1955 Sutter County Flood Documentary airing on Comcast Channel 19

Sutter County's documentary on the 1955 flood will be shown five times a day on Comcast Channel 19 starting Feb. 10.

The 1955 Sutter County Flood was produced by Sutter County as part of its effort to inform residents about the nature of the flood threat posed by area rivers, and emerging concerns about the integrity of the levee system that protects homes, schools and businesses.

The 79-minute documentary combines still pictures and film footage from the 1955 flood, radio interviews conducted by KUBA's Dutch Klemp in the days following the flood, and interviews of flood survivors conducted in 2009.

The documentary will air for several weeks on Channel 19, the Comcast government access channel, Monday through Friday, at 7 a.m., 9:30 a.m., noon, 4 p.m. and 9 p.m.

In coming weeks, the documentary will be available on DVD from the Community Memorial Museum of Sutter County.

Related Video

Watch the opening of the documentary on the Appeal-Democrat website.

Podcasts online!

CLICK HERE to visit the new Podcasts page. Listen to podcasts about the 1955 Christmas Eve Sutter County flood.

Special feature:
Don't Be Scared. Be Prepared!

At 12:04 a.m. on Christmas Eve morning, 1955, a levee on the west bank of the Feather River collapsed about one mile south of Yuba City, and a wall of water 4,000 feet wide and 21 feet high cascaded into Sutter County. The resulting 38 deaths and the destruction of homes, businesses and farmland across 100,000 acres of Sutter County was the worst disaster in the history of California since the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

The Sutter Butte Flood Control Agency and the County of Sutter, in cooperation with several other agencies and the Appeal-Democrat, are providing this special publication to help residents better understand the threat posed by deficient levees along the Feather, Yuba, Sacramento and Bear rivers.

Download PDF (16 pages, 10.7 MB)

View PDF at Appeal-Democrat website

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