Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
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 ...
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is California’s most crucial water and ecological resource. It is the largest freshwater tidal estuary of its kind on the west coast of the Americas, providing important habitat for birds on the Pacific Flyway and for fish that live in or pass through the Delta.
Your California trip is not complete without a visit to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area with its fishing, boating, dining, camping, wine tasting, and sightseeing. There isn’t a place filled with more character, culture, and charm!
Rivers, wetlands, and agricultural operations supply natural organic material to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Delta) and the San Francisco Estuary. This natural organic matter provides many ecosystem benefits, but it also adversely affects drinking water.
Saltwater from the San Francisco Bay mixes with fresh water from the Sacramento, San Joaquin, and other rivers to create the largest estuary on the West Coast. This estuary provides habitat critical to the survival of many fish and wildlife species.
The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is one of the largest estuaries in the United States. It provides water to more than 25 million California residents, farmlands, and key fish and wildlife habitats.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area recognizes and celebrates the rural, agricultural, multicultural, technological, and recreational heritage of the inland Delta - the heart of California.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta is defined in Water Code section 12220, and Suisun Marsh means the area defined in Public Resources Code section 29101 and protected by Division 19 (commencing with section 29000).
For thousands of years, the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (Delta) was a vast plain with seasonal flooding, creating 1000 square miles of brackish tidal marsh, narrow, branching tidal channels, and freshwater marshes.
The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta has drawn humans for millennia. Its allure is not gold, towering mountains, or deep blue sea, but what has always mattered most: water, rich soil, and the resources they yield. The Delta’s first people thrived in its abundance.