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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.
These watercourses (rivers, creeks, sloughs, etc.) in the San Francisco Bay Area are grouped according to the bodies of water they flow into. Tributaries are listed under the watercourses they feed, sorted by the elevation of the confluence so that tributaries entering nearest the sea appear first.
The harbor provides excellent protection as it lies protected by Brooks Island an extensive breakwater inside the already protected San Francisco Bay. The harbour connects to the Santa Fe Channel and its chanellets in addition to the Richmond Marina Bay and Campus Bay. Baxter Creek and Meeker Slough Creek's mouths and deltas drain into the harbor.
Marina Bay, is located in Richmond's protected Richmond Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid-1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct World War II-era Kaiser Shipyards .
Butchertown is also headquarters to San Francisco's only active freight railroad, the San Francisco Bay Railroad, [5] a Class 3 short-line carrier. Old Butchertown [ 6 ] was along the shores of Mission Creek on Mission Bay; this bay subsequently became the land-filled Mission Bay neighborhood .
In 1993 the port received 26 million tons of goods. The majority of the cargo was oil and other petroleum products. The port is located at the end of Canal Boulevard in South Richmond. Port Richmond also receives imported cars and delivers them to dealers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The port is a major entry point for vehicles from ...
The Richmond is home to San Francisco Unified School District elementary, middle and high schools. Elementary schools have distinct attendance zones. [21] Preschools. Argonne Early Education School - Inner Richmond [22] Elementary schools. Alamo [23] - Established in 1926, in the center of the area. [24] Argonne - In Inner Richmond [25]
Other common crop water use, if using all irrigated water: fruits and nuts with 34% of water use and 45% of revenue, field crops with 14% of water and 4% of revenue, pasture forage with 11% of water use and 1% of revenue, rice with 8% of water use and 2% of revenue (despite its lack of water, California grows nearly 5 billion pounds (2.3 ...