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State officials have gone so far as to build levees across major saltwater in-flows in times of especially severe drought. [7] Saltwater intrusion is temporarily stemmed in spring months when snow melt and rain runoff increase water volumes carried by the San Joaquin and Sacramento rivers, fending off saltwater intrusion.
A Coastal Discovery Center is located across California State Route 1 (the Pacific Coast Highway) from the Hearst Castle visitor center in San Simeon, California, near the William Randolph Hearst Memorial State Beach. [6] The Monterey Bay Marine Sanctuary Exploration Center opened on July 23, 2012 [7] at 35 Pacific Avenue in Santa Cruz, California.
Duxbury Reef State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area located about 1 mile (2 km) west of Bolinas in Marin County on California’s north central coast. This marine protected area covers 0.66 square miles (1.7 km 2). Duxbury Reef SMCA prohibits the take of all living marine resources, except the recreational take of ...
Saunders Reef State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area that extends offshore, just south of Schooner Gulch State Beach and north of Sail Rock in Mendocino County on California's north central coast. The marine protected area covers 9.35 square miles (24.2 km 2). Saunders Reef SMCA prohibits the take of all living marine ...
Suisun Marsh, 116,000 acres (470 km 2) of land, bays, and sloughs, is one of the largest estuarine marshes in the western United States. Geologically, the Suisun Marsh is the product of water-borne sediment deposition, carried from the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers into the San Francisco Bay.
Naples State Marine Conservation Area (SMCA) is a marine protected area that protects Naples Reef which is about three-quarters of a mile offshore along the middle of the pristine and rural Gaviota Coast in Santa Barbara County on California’s south coast. The SMCA covers 2.58 square miles. [1]
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The shallow southern end of the bay is used for evaporation ponds to extract salt from the seawater. The salt ponds, Sweetwater Marsh, and other areas of the bay are included in the San Diego National Wildlife Refuge Complex. [19] The area includes the largest contiguous mud-flat in Southern California. [20]