The West Branch (or West Fork) Feather River is a
Lake Oroville tributary that flows generally north-to-south in the
North Fork Feather Watershed near the watershed's
drainage divide
A drainage divide, water divide, ridgeline, watershed, water parting or height of land is elevated terrain that separates neighboring drainage basins. On rugged land, the divide lies along topographical ridges, and may be in the form of a singl ...
with th
Mills-Big Chico Watershed and Upper Butte Watershed.
;Toadtown development & DeSabla Regional Bundle: Up to of the West Branch is diverted to the
Hendricks Canal Hendricks may refer to:
Places
* Hendricks, Kentucky
* Hendricks, Minnesota, largest city in the U.S. with that name.
* Hendricks, West Virginia
* Hendricks County, Indiana
* Hendricks Township (disambiguation)
* Lake Hendricks
Other uses
* ...
of the
Toadtown development, and the Magalia 73 Dam conveys water via a sequence of
DeSabla Regional Bundle facilities from the Upper Miocene Canal to Kunkle Reservoir (Lime Saddle Powerhouse near Lake Oroville), then via the Middle Miocene Canal to the Coal Canyon Powerhouse, and then to the
Oroville-Thermalito Complex.
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Tributaries of the Feather River
Rivers of Plumas County, California
Rivers of Northern California