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The Napa Sonoma Marsh is a wetland at the northern edge of San Pablo Bay, which is a northern arm of the San Francisco Bay in California, United States. This marsh has an area of 48,000 acres (190 km 2 ), of which 13,000 acres (53 km 2 ) are abandoned salt evaporation ponds .
The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA / ˈ s iː. k w ə /) is a California statute passed in 1970 and signed in to law by then-governor Ronald Reagan, [1] [2] shortly after the United States federal government passed the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), to institute a statewide policy of environmental protection.
Restoration of the wetlands began in 1988 and was completed in 2000. [1] Now, the site serves a dual purpose of removing nitrates from the creek water and providing a bird habitat. The water district also operates an adjacent wastewater treatment facility but the treated wastewater does not enter the wildlife sanctuary. [2]
The sinuous watercourse and associated wetlands form a significant floodplain during the heavy winter rains, capable of storing over 80,000 acre-feet (99,000,000 m 3) of stormwater. Beyond its hydrological significance, the Laguna is Sonoma County's richest area of wildlife habitat , and the most biologically diverse part of the county, having ...
The 43 acres (17 ha) was a former site of oil wells and is one of the few natural areas remaining within an urban landscape. [ 1 ] Formed eons ago when the mountains of the Palos Verdes Peninsula rose to the south, Madrona Marsh is a shallow depression fed by wet season (spring) storms as the name "vernal" indicates.
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In the heart of the western division is the Grassland Resource Conservation District (GRCD), an area of 70,000 acres (280 km 2) of private wetlands and associated grasslands, and over 30,600 acres (124 km 2) of federal National Wildlife Refuges and state Wildlife Management Areas. These private wetlands constitute 30% of the remaining wetlands ...
Wetlands of the San Francisco Bay Area (1 C, 41 P) W. Wetlands and marshes of Los Angeles County, California (14 P) Pages in category "Wetlands of California"