NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION US5CA47E - SACRAMENTO RIVER, ANDRUS ISLAND TO SACRAMENTO INDEX: SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS AUTHORITIES NOTE A WARNING – PRUDENT MARINER SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION POLLUTION REPORTS RADAR REFLECTORS RULES OF THE ROAD BROADCASTS OF MARINE WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS BY MARIN RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS MARINE WEATHER FORECASTS NOAA WEATHER RADIO BROADCASTS SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS: For symbols and abbreviations see Chart No. 1. AUTHORITIES: Hydrography and topography by the National Ocean Service, Coast Survey, with additional data from the Corps of Engineers, Geological Survey, U.S. Coast Guard, and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. NOTE A: Navigation regulations are published in Chapter 2, U.S. Coast Pilot 7. Additions or revisions to Chapter 2 are published in the Notice to Mariners. Information concerning the regulations may be obtained at the Office of the Commander, 11th Coast Guard District in Alameda, California or at the Office of the District Engineer, Corps of Engineers in Sacramento, California. Refer to Code of Federal Regulations section numbers. WARNING – PRUDENT MARINER: The prudent mariner will not rely solely on any single aid to navigation, particularly on floating aids. See U.S. Coast Guard Light List and U.S. Coast Pilot for details. SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION: Consult U.S. Coast Pilot for important supplemental information. CAUTION: Small craft should stay clear of large commercial and government vessels even if small craft have the right-of-way. All craft should avoid areas where the skin divers' flag, a red square with a diagonal white stripe, is displayed. CAUTION: Temporary changes or defects in aids to navigation are not indicated. See Local Notice to Mariners. CAUTION: Limitations on the use of radio signals as aids to marine navigation can be found in the U.S. Coast Guard Light Lists and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency Publication 117. Radio direction-finder bearings to commercial broadcasting stations are subject to error and should be used with caution. CAUTION: Small craft operators are warned to beware of severe water turbulence caused by large vessels traversing narrow waterways. CAUTION: Mariners are warned that numerous uncharted piles, snags, pumps, pipes, and wrecks some submerged may exist along the edges of the waterway. Numerous buoys and signs mark the wing dams along the Sacramento River. Mariners should never attempt to pass between the warning buoys and the shore. The depths shown in backwaters, sloughs and cuts are from surveys of 1934. Channels are not maintained by the Corps of Engineers and numerous uncharted shoals and obstructions have been reported. CAUTION: Vessels operating in fresh water lakes or rivers shall not discharge sewage, or ballast, or bilge water within such areas adjacent to domestic water intakes as are designated by the Commissioner of Food and Drugs (21 CFR 1250.93). Consult U.S. Coast Pilot 7 for important supplemental information. POLLUTION REPORTS: Report all spills of oil and hazardous substances to the National Response Center via 1-800-424-8802 (toll free), or to the nearest U.S. Coast Guard facility if telephone communication is impossible (33 CFR 153). RADAR REFLECTORS: Radar reflectors have been placed on many floating aids to navigation. Individual radar reflector identification on these aids has been omitted. RULES OF THE ROAD: Motorless craft have the right-of-way in almost all cases. Sailing vessels and motorboats less than sixty-five feet in length shall not hamper, in a narrow channel, the safe passage of a vessel which can navigate only inside that channel. A motorboat being overtaken has the right-of-way. Motorboats approaching head to head or nearly so should pass port to port. When motorboats approach each other at right angles or obliquely, the boat on the right has the right-of-way in most cases. Motorboats must keep to the right in narrow channels when safe and practicable. Motorboats are urged to become familiar with the complete text of the Rules of the Road in U.S. Coast Guard publication "Navigation Rules". BROADCASTS OF MARINE WEATHER FORECASTS AND WARNINGS BY MARIN RADIOTELEPHONE STATIONS: CITY STATION FREQ BROADCAST TIMES - PST SPECIAL WARNING San Francisco, CA NMC-17 157.1 MHz 8:30 & 11:00 AM, 3:30 PM *On receipt (USCG) *2670 kHz 6:03 AM & PM *On receipt * Preceded by announcement on 2182 kHz and 156.8 MHz Distress calls for small craft are made on 2182 kHz or channel 16 (156.80 MHz) VHF MARINE WEATHER FORECASTS: NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TELEPHONE NUMBERS OFFICE HOURS Oxnard, CA (805) 988-6610 7:00 AM - 3:00 PM M-F* Eureka, CA (707) 443-6484 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM M-F* San Francisco Bay Area, CA (831) 656-1725 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM M-F* San Diego, CA (619) 675-8706 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM M-F* Sacramento, CA (916) 979-3051 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM M-F * Recorded forecasts only at other times NOAA WEATHER RADIO BROADCASTS: The NOAA Weather Radio Service stations listed below provide continuous weather broadcasts. The range of reception is variable, but for most stations is usually 20 to 40 miles from the antenna site, but can be as much as 100 nautical miles for stations at high elevations. Sacramento, CA KEC-57 162.55 MHz WX1 24 hours daily END OF FILE