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Upon completion, the Rio Vista bridge won an American Institute of Steel Construction class IV (movable bridges) prize bridge award in 1960. [ 7 ] The main lift span weighs 750 short tons (680 t), with an equal amount in counterweights, so the lift mechanism operates 1,500 short tons (1,400 t) using two 30-horsepower (22 kW) electric motors ...
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 Sacramento River Deep Water Ship Channel connects the Delta to the Port of Sacramento, with its terminus located near Rio Vista, on the northwestern side of the Delta. The Stockton Ship Channel is a dredged and partially straightened section of the San Joaquin River cutting directly through the Delta from the Port of Stockton to the San ...
Rio Vista is a small city in Solano County approximately 50 miles (80 km) south of Sacramento, on the Sacramento River in the Sacramento River Delta.. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 7.1 square miles (18 km 2), of which, 6.7 square miles (17 km 2) of it is land and 0.4 square miles (1.0 km 2) of it (5.68%) is water.
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Tower Bridge (California) This is a list of the crossings of the Sacramento River from its mouth at Suisun Bay upstream to the Ribbon Bridge in Redding. There are many more bridges north of this point up to Lake Siskiyou, immediately east of the source of the river at the confluence of the South and Middle Forks of the Sacramento River.
May 9—A bridge on U.S. 84 north of Hernández in Rio Arriba County reopened early Thursday morning after an hourslong closure due to damage. The bridge crosses the Rio del Oso, a tributary of ...