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Learn about the history, academics, arts, and athletics of San Joaquin Delta College, a public community college in Stockton, California. The college serves a district area of over 24,000 students and offers Associate of Arts degree programs and certificates.
Marc Reisner, A Dangerous Place (2003) The Delta was formerly located at the bottom of a large inland sea in the Central Valley, which formed as the uplift of the California Coast Ranges blocked off drainage from the Sierra Nevada to the Pacific. About 560,000 years ago, water breached the mountains, carving out the present-day Carquinez Strait and San Francisco Bay. The drainage of all the ...
Kings Island (formerly Bra's Island) is an island in the Old River in the south Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in San Joaquin County, California, 9.3 miles (15 km) southwest of Stockton. [1] The small 8.6-acre (3.5 ha) island is the smallest of a cluster of delta islands including Eucalyptus Island, Widdows Island, Victoria Island , and ...
Old River is a tidal distributary of the San Joaquin River that flows through the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta. It has a reverse flow due to water pumping projects, and forms the boundary between San Joaquin and Contra Costa counties.
The Delta–Mendota Canal ends at Mendota Pool, on the San Joaquin River near the city of Mendota, 30 mi (48 km) west of Fresno. The Delta–Mendota Canal capacity is 4,600 cu ft/s (130 m 3 /s) and gradually decreases to 3,211 cu ft/s (90.9 m 3 /s) at its terminus.
Learn about the California Aqueduct, a system of canals, tunnels, and pipelines that conveys water from Northern and Central California to Southern California. The aqueduct is part of the California State Water Project and serves 35 million people and 5.7 million acres of farmland.
McDonald Island is an island in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, 53 km (33 mi) south of Sacramento. [1] [2] The 2,400 ha (5,900-acre) island is bounded on the north by San Joaquin River, on the west by Middle River and Latham Slough, and on the south by Empire Cut.
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