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Station: FREMONT (stamped
FREMONT 1999)
The station is about 10 mi northeast of Woodland, about 5 mi southeast of Knights Landing and at the eastern end of the Fremont Weir. To reach the station from the intersection of Interstate Highway 5 and County Road E8, Road 102, about 2 mi east of Woodland, go east on Highway for about 5 mi to the Road 22 off-ramp. Take the off-ramp east and then south for about 0.2 mi to a T-intersection, Road 118. Turn left and go east for 0.5 mi to a T-intersection, Old River Road. Turn left and go northwest on Old River Road, passing under Highway 5, for 0.2 mi to a side road right, Road 117. Turn right and go northerly on Road 117, following the west bank of the Sacramento River, for about 6 mi to a side road left, Road 16. Turn left and go west on Road 16 for 1.1 mi to the intersection of a dirt farm road on the west side of a drainage canal and a windmill in the northwest quadrant. Turn right ono the farm road and go north for 1.0 mi to the south edge of a walnut orchard. Continue north for 0.3 mi to the north edge of the orchard and a dirt side road left. Turn left and go west on the dirt road for 0.85 mi to the top of the Yolo Bypass levee. Turn left on the levee and go south for 0.2 mi to a gate. The lock for the gate is a standard Department of Water Resources master lock. Continue south through the gate for 0.05 mi to the station on the right in the abutment headwall at the end of the Fremont weir. The station is a 2 in. Yolo County disk set in the massive abutment headwall marking a point where the Fremont Weir makes a turn to the south. It is 14.5 m west of the levee road, 9.8 m west-southwest of the corner of a barbed wire fence, 2.7 m south of the north end of the abutment, 0.4 m east of the west face of the abutment and about 1.0 m lower than the levee road. |
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