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Follow the Water Tour - Day 3
10-15 water tour day 3 This is Part 3 of a 3 day trip I recently took through the California Water Project. You can find Day 1 Here. You can find Day 2 Here.
Day 3, we spent a great deal of time examining the Sacramento / San Joaquin Bay Delta, the Hub of the State Water Project and the area around which most of the controversy swirls. An entire article could be devoted to the history of the Delta area but I’ll keep it brief. Prior to 150 years ago the Delta was one of the largest natural estuaries on the continent. Hundreds of species of animal, thousands of birds and untold schools of fish called this area home.
Following the discovery of gold upstream in the American, Sacramento and Feather Rivers, the Delta came to be looked on as a local source for food so piece by piece levees were constructed, channeling the flow of water away from the tule marshes which were ‘reclaimed’ as farmland. Today nearly 700 miles of waterways criss-cross the Delta between mud banks and levees making some 57 ‘islands’ of rich peat soil growing everything from rice to oranges and almonds and ... more

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