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The San Francisco Estuary Partnership (or simply the Partnership) is one of the 28 National Estuary Programs created in the 1987 Amendments to the Clean Water Act.The Partnership is a non-regulatory federal-state-local collaboration working to restore water quality and manage the natural resources of the San Francisco Bay-Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta estuary.
The State Water Resources Control Board was established from the State Water Quality Control Board and the State Water Rights Board by an Act of 1967. [ 4 ] California's pioneering clean water act is the 1969 Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (Porter-Cologne Act). [ 5 ]
The Mokelumne River in the Delta forms part of the water pathway for the Central Valley Project and State Water Project, which divert Sacramento River water to a number of aqueducts that supply central and southern California. The Sacramento River is connected to the Mokelumne River by the Delta Cross Channel, which enables the large pump ...
The department was created in 1956 by Governor Goodwin Knight following severe flooding across Northern California in 1955, where they combined the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Public Works with the State Engineer's Office, the Water Project Authority, and the State Water Resources Board. [1]
The CALFED Bay-Delta Program, also known as CALFED, is a department within the government of California, administered under the California Resources Agency.The department acts as consortium, coordinating the activities and interests of the state government of California and the U.S. federal government to focus on interrelated water problems in the state’s Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta.
The idea of the $369 million Biscayne Bay Coastal Wetlands project is to use stormwater pumps, narrow canals and holes cut under roads to slow down the flow of water from major canals into ...
The Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, or California Delta, is an expansive inland river delta and estuary in Northern California. The delta is formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and lies just east of where the rivers enter Suisun Bay , which flows into San Francisco ...
Biscayne Bay is a lagoon with characteristics of an estuary located on the Atlantic coast of South Florida.The northern end of the lagoon is surrounded by the densely developed heart of the Miami metropolitan area while the southern end is largely undeveloped with a large portion of the lagoon included in Biscayne National Park.