{"id":480748,"date":"2026-09-30T19:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480748\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T19:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T19:10:15","slug":"sacramento-delta-gates-shut-for-24-hours-to-save-salmon-run-covering-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/480748\/","title":{"rendered":"Sacramento Delta gates shut for 24 hours to save salmon run | Covering California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily close the Delta Cross Channel gates on Thursday at approximately 10 a.m. The gates will reopen on Friday at approximately 10 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Bureau of Reclamation, the temporary closure is intended to help protect adult fall-run Chinook salmon passage and maintain river flows that help guide migrating salmon toward the lower Mokelumne River. Reclamation may conduct a similar temporary gate closure next week.<\/p>\n<p>Any additional gate operations will depend on Delta conditions and will be coordinated based on current hydrologic and fisheries information. The Delta Cross Channel, located near Walnut Grove, is a controlled diversion channel that connects the Sacramento River with the interior Delta.<\/p>\n<p>Operation of its gates is coordinated to meet water supply, water quality, flood management, and fishery objectives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SACRAMENTO, Calif. \u2014 The Bureau of Reclamation will temporarily close the Delta Cross Channel gates on Thursday at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480749,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3671,100,121,123,122,136],"class_list":["post-480748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-covering-california","tag-news","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}