Drone Shots's video: Plumas Lake California

Plumas Lake is a master-planned exurb and census-designated place in Yuba County, California. Plumas Lake is located 30 miles north of the city of Sacramento on the Feather River, just prior to its confluence with the Bear River and the Sacramento River. At full build-out the city will have roughly 12,000 homes and 36,000 residents. The community is located about 10 miles south of the city of Marysville in southern Yuba County. It lies at an elevation of 46 feet. The population was 5,853 in 2010. Plumas Lake covers 8.4 square miles. Many individuals and agencies (including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) were opposed to the construction of this project due to the history of severe (15+ feet of standing water) flooding. Notable floods in the area occurred in 1986 and 1997. The flood risk in the area was exacerbated by hydraulic mining which occurred in the Yuba River watershed upstream of the region. Mine tailings wound up in the river beds and were then transported into the Sacramento Valley, where they accumulated in the river channels and reduced their conveyance capacities. This mining activity was part of the Gold Rush of California.