Sacramento

	SACRAMENTO RIVER Length: 380 miles (612 kilometers)
The following Sacramento River businesses are listed by River Mile-marker (RM) going upstream.

The Sacramento River is the longest river of California. It rises southwest of Mt. Shasta, c.35 mi/56 km SSE of Yreka, S Siskiyou co., north California and flows northeast for a short distance, then south, thorugh Shasta Lake, past Redding, Red Bluff, Colusa, and Sacramento. Then joins San Joaquin River south-southwest of Sacramento and continues jointly with San Joaquin as an estuary 10 mi/16 km W to Suisha Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay, northeast of San Francisco, where it forms a large delta with the San Joaquin River. Its chief tributaries are the Pit, Feather, McCloud, and American rivers. Sacramento Deep Water Channel coincides with river’s lower c.20 mi/32 km, then parallels river to W, from Cache Slough N to West Sacramento, giving Sacramento city port access. The valley saw the great gold strike of 1848, and many of the cities on or near the river and its tributaries sprang up in the gold rush; Sacramento is the largest. This N part of the Central Valley of Calif. has been developed as a fertile agr. region. The Central Valley Project has been developed to use the waters of the Sacramento with greater efficiency, particularly in the fertile but dry San Joaquin (S) part of the Central Valley. Shasta Dam on the Sacramento is a major unit of the project; it also generates electricity. Irrigated farming through much of river’s course, from Redding S.

Lake Name	Full Pool (MSL)	Acres	Map
Lakes on the Sacramento River (in order of flow)
Shasta		29,750