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The largest bodies of water in the Bay Area are the San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and Suisun Bay.The San Francisco Bay is one of the largest bays in the world. Many inlets on the edges of the three major bays are designated as bays in their own right, such as Richardson Bay, San Rafael Bay, Grizzly Bay, and San Leandro Bay.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model is a working hydraulic scale model of the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta System. While the Bay Model is still operational, it is no longer used for scientific research but is instead open to the public alongside educational exhibits about Bay hydrology.
Alameda Creek is the largest watershed within the southern San Francisco Bay, draining 700 square miles (1,813 square kilometers), or about 20% of the total drainage area for the South Bay. [12] Two-thirds of the watershed is in Alameda County including the reach through the Sunol Valley , the rest is in Santa Clara County .
San Francisco Bay and the Golden Gate Bridge, looking southeast towards the City and East Bay. Alcatraz is the small islet in the upper-middle left. San Francisco Bay's profile changed dramatically in the late 19th century and again with the initiation of dredging by the US Army Corps of Engineers in the 20th century. Before about 1860, most ...
The watershed which drains into the Pacific Ocean via San Francisco Bay in California. The drainage basin is located west of the Sierra Crest , and includes the Central Valley ( Sacramento Valley and San Joaquin Valley ) and the Bay Area .
Officials reported standing water on a freeway interchange in Dublin and flooded lanes along Interstate 280, U.S. Highway 101 and California Highway 35, along the San Francisco Peninsula. To the ...
Drone footage shot by storm chaser Brandon Clement showed the improvement in water level and snowpack in places such as Folson Lake, Lake Oroville and Donner Pass, since last summer.
[9] [14] The Solano County Water Agency (SCWA) and its partners work closely to manage the water levels at Lake Berryessa. A "Drought Contingency Plan" is in place to manage lake level if it drops below 800,000 acre-feet (990,000,000 m 3 ) [ 16 ] then SCWA and acting partners will work to find alternate water supplies for the lake's recipients ...