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To the west, French Island and Moore Tract are across Shag Slough; Little Hastings Tract and Rio Vista are south across Cache Slough, Little Holland Tract is to the east across Liberty Cut, and Prospect Island is to the southeast, across both Prospect Slough and the Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel.
The Ryer Island Ferry is a ferry that operates between Rio Vista and Ryer Island, crossing Cache Slough in the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in Solano County, California. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) operates the vehicle roll-on/roll-off service, which is classified as part of California State Route 84. [1]
Cache Slough then reconnects with the Sacramento River just north of Rio Vista. The water eventually flows into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, just above Rio Vista, and from there into San Francisco Bay. The Yolo Bypass can hold approximately four times the flow of the Sacramento River.
Cache Creek was originally known to the Hudson's Bay Company trappers as Rivière la Cache. [4] Cache Creek was temporarily blocked north of Rumsey by a landslide caused by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake : Our Rumsey correspondent mentions the fall of Cache Creek as a result of an earthquake shock Tuesday night. The water has continued to ...
An aerial photo looking northwest, taken in 2018. Ryer Island can be seen on the bottom. Ryer Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta surrounded by Miner Slough and Steamboat Slough at their confluence with the Sacramento River, 6.5 miles north-northeast of Rio Vista. [1]
Map of Sacramento River Sacramento River near the mouth Cache Creek, in the Coast Ranges. Sacramento River. Cache Slough Steamboat Slough (splits from the Sacramento River upstream near Courtland) Elkhorn Slough; Miner Slough; Sacramento Deep Water Ship Channel (splits from the Sacramento River upstream at the Port of Sacramento) Prospect ...
It diverts water to Snodgrass Slough, from where it flows to the Mokelumne River, [1] then to the San Joaquin River, towards the C.W. Bill Jones Pumping Plant, [2] which is the intake for the Delta-Mendota Canal, part of the Central Valley Project. [3] The distance from the channel to the Jones Pumping Plant is about 50 miles (80 km). [2]
Delta Meadows River Park (DMRP) is a state park property of California, United States, preserving an undeveloped piece of the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. At present it is open to the public for walking, fishing and boating but has no visitor services. [ 1 ]