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Watercourses which feed into the east shore of San Francisco Bay between the Bay Bridge and the San Mateo–Hayward Bridge, numbered from north to south: Glen Echo Creek (224215) Indian Gulch (225879) Sausal Creek (232602) Shephard Creek (232958) Palo Seco Creek (230277) Peralta Creek (230520) Lion Creek (227172) Arroyo Viejo (218410) Elmhurst ...
Rivers of the San Francisco Bay Area — including rivers, streams, creeks, arroyos, brooks, glens, deltas, tributaries, and confluences. Note: Most of these articles are categorized by county. The main article for this category is Hydrography of the San Francisco Bay Area .
In the Delta area, marshes were drained for farmland. In San Francisco, marshes were filled in for urban development. In the East Bay, portions were used as landfill. In the South Bay, huge tracts have served as commercial salt evaporation ponds. In the North Bay, the Napa Sonoma Marsh and Point Molate Marsh remain productive ecosystems. Some ...
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland. San Francisco Bay drains water from approximately 40 percent of California.
San Francisco Bay Area. East Bay. Oakland–Alameda County; Tri-Valley Area. Amador Valley; Livermore Valley; San Ramon Valley; Lamorinda; North Bay. Marin County. West Marin; Ross Valley; Wine Country. Napa Valley; Russian River Valley; Sonoma Valley; Telecom Valley; The Peninsula. City and County of San Francisco; San Mateo County; South Bay ...
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The North Shore Channel is a 7.7 mile long canal built between 1907 and 1910 to increase the flow of North Branch of the Chicago River so that it would empty into the South Branch and the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal. [1] Its water is generally taken from Lake Michigan to flow into the canal at Wilmette Harbor.
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