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2. Delta Conveyance Project - Wikipedia

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   Delta Conveyance Project, formerly known as California Water Fix and Eco Restore or the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, is a $15 billion [1] plan proposed by Governor Jerry Brown and the California Department of Water Resources to build a 36 foot diameter tunnel to carry fresh water from the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by the ...

3. Sutter Basin - Wikipedia

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   The Sutter Basin is a 264 sq mi (680 km 2) area of the Sacramento Valley in the U.S. state of California, and is part of the Feather River drainage basin.The basin includes the Sutter Basin Fire Protection District of ~127 sq mi (330 km 2) and uses irrigation from the Thermalito Afterbay's Sutter-Butte Canal.

4. Live Oak, Sutter County, California - Wikipedia

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   The Sutter Buttes in Northern California. Live Oak is located at (39.274518, -121.662003 [7]According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.5 square miles (6.5 km 2), all of it land.

5. Sacramento, California - Wikipedia

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   Within just a few short years, Sutter Sr. had become a grand success, owning a 10-acre (4.0 ha) orchard and a herd of 13,000 cattle. Fort Sutter became a regular stop for the increasing number of immigrants coming through the valley. In 1847, Sutter Sr. received 2,000 fruit trees, which started the agriculture industry in the Sacramento Valley.

6. Franks Tract State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

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   Franks Tract was once the United States' second-largest source of peat, after the Everglades. [4] Located along the San Joaquin River, about 11 miles (18 km) east of Antioch, California, the site was originally reclaimed between 1902 and 1906 and owned by Dr. N.K. Foster and F.C. Franks. [1]

7. Oakland, California - Wikipedia

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   The U.S. Weather Bureau kept weather records in downtown Oakland from October 4, 1894, to July 31, 1958. During that time, the record high temperature was 104 °F (40 °C) on June 24, 1957, and the record low temperature was 24 °F (−4 °C) on January 23, 1949.