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The Petaluma River is a river in the California counties of Sonoma and Marin [1] that becomes a tidal slough for most of its length. The headwaters are in the area southwest of Cotati . The flow is generally southward through Petaluma's old town, where the waterway becomes navigable, and then flows another 10 mi (16 km) through tidal marshes ...
State Route 37 (SR 37) is a state highway in the U.S. state of California that runs 21 miles (34 km) along the northern shore of San Pablo Bay.It serves as a vital connection in the North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, running from U.S. Route 101 in Novato, through northeastern Marin County, and the southern tips of both Sonoma and Solano Counties to Interstate 80 in Vallejo.
In a three-day period on January 3–5, 1982, significant flooding occurred in the San Francisco Bay area due to a significant storm system which impacted the area. . Widespread rainfall amounts of over 6 inches (150 mm) fell, triggering flooding, with portions of Marin County receiving up to 16 inches (410 mm) of rain and the San Lorenzo Valley receiving up to 25 inches
In the interest of improving commerce along the Petaluma River, a Congressionally authorized examination of the Petaluma river in 1879 determined that 60,000 tons of freight and 13,000 passengers per year were traveling on one steam boat between Haystack Landing and San Francisco.
The largest rivers are the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, which drain into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and thence to Suisun Bay. Other major rivers of the North Bay are the Napa River, the Petaluma River, the Gualala River, and the Russian River; the former two drain into San Pablo Bay, the latter two into the Pacific Ocean.
Sonoma County's first standard-gauge railroad, operated by the Sonoma County Railroad Company, was the 1-mile (1.6 km) Petaluma and Haystack Railroad connecting the city of Petaluma with ferry service to San Francisco from Haystack Landing on the Petaluma River in 1864. Petaluma and Haystack coaches were pulled by horses after the locomotive ...
Watercourses which feed into the east shore of San Francisco Bay between the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge and the Dumbarton Bridge, listed north to south: Mount Eden Creek (229145) North Creek (229624) Alameda Creek (1654946) Dry Creek (222606) Stonybrook Canyon (235553) Arroyo de la Laguna (218389) Vallecitos Creek (236963) Sinbad Creek (233170)
A span over the Petaluma River at Black Point was first constructed by Peter Donahue and his San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad (SF&NP) in the late 19th century. [3] The original railroad bridge was part of a branch connecting Ignacio to Sonoma and Glen Ellen . [ 3 ]