Officials held a press conference Wednesday to inform the public about high water levels from Pactola and Deerfield Reservoirs and the resulting increased stream flows in Rapid Creek.

BUTTE — For a new $30-million facility, there’s nothing flashy or loud about it. But the Basin Creek water-treatment plant tucked in the trees and hills south of Butte is certainly fancy.

A view of Matadero Creek north of the Bol Park footbridge in Palo Alto, adjacent to a donkey pasture. A 600-foot section of the waterway which was impacted by a diesel fuel spill on May 6, 2021.

Water, when not in contact with anything, or when the force of adhesion is not called into action, generally may be said to assume the spheroidal state.

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