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Bay-Delta: Shaking Things Up
This is the 3rd post in a series of posts on the crisis facing the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. It has been a few months since posting the first two installments, but it’s my intention to start it up again. Click here to see a list of all posts in the series and to refresh … Continue reading
Bay-Delta: Levees, Climate Change, and Water Quality
This is the 2nd post in a series on the crisis facing the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Click here for a list of all posts in the series. For several decades following the Gold Rush, almost a half million acres of the Delta, then a tidal marsh, were drained and reclaimed. Since then, the uncovered … Continue reading
Bay-Delta: An Introduction
This is the 1st in a series on the crisis facing the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. Click here for a list of all posts in the series. Bradford Island, western Delta; courtesy of Sac Bee. The Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta (referred to here as simply “the Delta”) is, in a nutshell, California’s most important water … Continue reading
The Bay-Delta Estuary: From Crisis to Sustainability
Mandeville Island, Quimby Island, and Piper Slough (central Delta); courtesy of EDF. We’re going to go out on a limb here: Transbay Blog is, after all, about city and transit planning, not water planning. But this website is also dedicated to, perhaps above all, how to accommodate responsible and well-planned growth — and impacts on … Continue reading
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