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Humboldt Bay (Wiyot: Wigi) [3] is a natural bay [4] and a multi-basin, bar-built coastal lagoon [5] located on the rugged North Coast of California, entirely within Humboldt County, United States. It is the largest protected body of water on the West Coast between San Francisco Bay and Puget Sound , the second-largest enclosed bay in California ...
The California Coastal Commission (CCC) is a state agency within the California Natural Resources Agency with quasi-judicial control of land and public access along the state's 1,100 miles (1,800 km) of coastline. Its mission as defined in the California Coastal Act is "to protect, conserve, restore, and enhance the environment of the ...
The following is a list of California locations by income. California had a per capita income of $29,906 during the five-year period comprising years 2010 through 2014. About every third county and every third place in California had per capita incomes above the state average. Though somewhat counterintuitive, this implies that counties and ...
The Tidal Basin covers an area of about 107 acres (43 ha) and is 10 feet (3.0 m) deep. The Army Corps of Engineers designed the Basin to enable it to release 250 million US gallons (950,000 m 3) of water captured at high tide twice a day. The inlet gates, located on the Potomac side of the Basin, allow water to enter the Basin during high tide.
A year and a half later, California requested to join the United States on December 3, 1849, and was accepted as the 31st State of the Union on September 9, 1850. [citation needed] San Francisco Bay Shoreline Tablet. In 1921, a tablet was dedicated by a group of men in downtown San Francisco, marking the site of the original shoreline.
In the year 1900, a pipeline salesman by the name of W.S. Porter [2] [4] convinced the presidents of the five largest companies in the Kern River Oil Field of California to enter into an agreement [2] [4] to turn over their oil interests to form a new company in exchange for stocks and bonds for the appraised value of their properties. [4]
Authorizes safety assistance at specified dams in California, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. Amends the WRDA 1986: to use authority under such Act for the control of sea lamprey at any Great Lakes basin location. to increase the amount authorized to conduct measurements of Lake Michigan diversions, and to extend such authorization through FY 2003.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is no longer used for scientific research but is instead open to the public alongside educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.