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Map of water storage and delivery facilities as well as major rivers and cities in the state of California. Central Valley Project systems are in red, and State Water Project in blue. California's interconnected water system serves almost 40 million people and irrigates over 5,680,000 acres (2,300,000 ha) of farmland. [1]
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The California Trail became the first important land link between San Francisco Bay and the eastern United States during the gold rush and became the route of the First transcontinental railroad in 1869. The gold rush brought approximately 200,000 new residents to California, and 36% of Californians lived around San Francisco Bay by 1870. [2]
Watershed management is the study of the relevant characteristics of a watershed aimed at the sustainable distribution of its resources and the process of creating and implementing plans, programs and projects to sustain and enhance watershed functions that affect the plant, animal, and human communities within the watershed boundary. [1]
Chemicals and heavy metals from industrial wastewater are also toxic to aquatic life. They can shorten an organism's life span and its ability to reproduce while also endangering humans, since humans may feed on these organisms and any toxic impacts on these organisms may adversely impact humans. [8]
The roots of mercury poisoning in waterways began with the historic mining of gold within California's streambed and hillsides; since the California Gold Rush, mercury has been used for gold extraction for its ability as a catalyze with the precious metal. due to the process of extraction and washing, mercury used would either be burned away as ...
At 100.6 square miles (261 km 2) in size, the Santiago Creek watershed makes up about 3.6% of the entire 2,400-square-mile (6,200 km 2) Santa Ana River watershed - but makes up about 65.7% of the 153.2 square miles (397 km 2) of Santa Ana River watershed within Orange County, and 10.6% of 948-square-mile (2,460 km 2) Orange County.
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science is a quarterly peer-reviewed open access scientific journal published by the California Digital Library covering research about the science and resource management of the San Francisco Bay, the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, and the upstream watersheds.