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	San Joaquin River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The river emerges from the foothills at what was once the town of Millerton, the location of Friant Dam since 1944, which forms Millerton Lake.
		The river flows west to the trough of the Central Valley, where it is joined by the Sierra's other great rivers and then flows north to the San Joaquin-Sacramento River Delta and then San Francisco Bay.
		Water from the river is used to irrigate 1,500 square miles of productive farmland on the east side of the Central Valley where 200 kinds of produce are raised from oranges to cotton.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Joaquin_River (587 words)

	San Joaquin County, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		San Joaquin County is a county located in the United States of America in California's Central Valley, just east of the San Francisco Bay Area.
		Stockton is a deep water port on the San Joaquin River.
		San Joaquin County was one of the original counties of California, created in 1850 at the time of statehood.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/San_Joaquin_County,_California (547 words)

	San Joaquin River - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The San Joaquin River is one of the largest rivers in the state of California.
		The San Joaquin river drains most of the area from the southern border of Yosemite, south to Kings Canyon National Park, making it the second largest river drainage in the state.
		The river flows west to the trough of the Central Valley, where it is joined by the Sierra's other great rivers and then flows north to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and then San Francisco Bay.
	www.sanger.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/San_Joaquin_River (359 words)

	The Fresno Bee \| Rescuing the San Joaquin \ Editorial (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Farmers on the east side of the San Joaquin Valley see it as the tap that has watered their orchards and fields, and created a multibillion-dollar agricultural empire.
		Environmentalists see the river as a vast eco-system, the mother river of a family of tributaries that carved the mountain passes and valleys of the Sierra Nevada and scoured its way to the sea, creating a universe of small habitats along its 350-mile course, habitats that were once home to hundreds of species of life.
		From that point on, the reconstituted river is, in the unfelicitous but largely accurate words of one writer, "the lower colon of California." But it wasn't always that way, and there is growing hope that it doesn't have to be that way in the future.
	www.fresnobee.com /man/projects/savesjr/edit1.html (1875 words)

	AllRefer.com - San Joaquin, United States (U.S. Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		San Joaquin[san wAkEn´] Pronunciation Key, river, c.320 mi (510 km) long, rising in the Sierra Nevada, E Calif., and flowing W then N through the S Central Valley to form a large delta with the Sacramento River near Suisun Bay, an arm of San Francisco Bay.
		The wide southern part of the basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range is usually called the San Joaquin Valley, although it includes independent rivers such as the Kings and the Kern.
		The Central Valley project, undertaken largely to bring surplus water from the north to make the San Joaquin Valley more fertile, has as one of its units Friant Dam on the San Joaquin; the San Luis Dam is on the San Luis River.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SanJoaqu.html (279 words)

	California, River of Hope, River of Pride: The San Joaquin : The Trust for Public Land
		Begun in 1988, the San Joaquin River Parkway is envisioned as a 22-mile-long greenbelt running along the river, where the river and its surrounding habitat still exist in a natural state.
		That plan is being implemented by the San Joaquin River Conservancy (the fifth such conservancy in the state and the first in the Central Valley), the Wildlife Conservation Board, the Department of Fish and Game, the River Trust, and TPL.
		Bud talked of how his father fought successfully for more than 14 frustrating years to keep water in the river when the U.S. government tired to dry it up, and said he had named a sturdy oak on the property after his father and a pond for his mother because it was her favorite spot.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=15335&folder_id=266 (868 words)

	San Joaquin Watershed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The San Joaquin Valley began to acquire a reputation for its agricultural produce.
		Around 200 river property owners protest "the closing of the San Joaquin River." The hydroelectric part of the CVP would have allowed for sufficient flow in the river.
		Instead the bureau took all the water from the county of origin and diverted the San Joaquin River waters to lands that never had water.
	www.woodrow.org /teachers/es/institutes/1998/r/freshwater/history.htm (595 words)

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		Located in the heart of California, the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region is bordered on the east by the crest of the Sierra Nevada and on the west by the coastal mountains of the Diablo Range.
		From 1980 to 1990, the region's population grew 41 percent, primarily in Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin counties.
		San Luis, New Melones, and New Don Pedro reservoirs, and Lake McClure are just four of the region's many public access reservoirs that provide facilities for boating, swimming, water skiing, wind surfing, and fishing.
	rubicon.water.ca.gov /v2/SJRR.html (6802 words)

	San Joaquin River. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The San Joaquin is navigable c.40 mi/64 km for oceangoing vessels to within 15 mi/24 km (to NW) of Stockton.
		the Sierra Nevada and the Coast Range is usually called the San Joaquin Valley, although it includes other rivers such as the Kings and the Kern.
		Central Valley Project, undertaken largely to bring water from the N to make the San Joaquin Valley more productive, has as one of its units Friant Dam on the San Joaquin; the San Luis Dam is on the San Luis R.; Delta Mendota Canal parallels lower river to W. The Columbia Gazetteer of North America.
	www.bartleby.com /69/86/S03386.html (178 words)

	Sunset: River revival - San Joaquin River in California's Central Valley - Brief Article
		The Central Valley's San Joaquin River is being restored a stretch at a time--for wildlife and for recreation
		At the river's edge, a school of small, dark fish darts away as a shadow crosses the water.
		Along its 350-mile journey from the Sierra to the Delta through the southern Central Valley, the San Joaquin River drops 13,000 feet, crosses seven counties, and supports one of the nation's largest agricultural economies.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_3_206/ai_70910572 (501 words)

	NRDC Press Archive: Friant Water Users Reject San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement
		SAN FRANCISCO (April 17, 2003) -- A settlement proposal to restore the San Joaquin River and resolve one of California's longest-running water disputes has been rejected by water districts who have diverted all the river's water for more than 50 years.
		"Historically the upper San Joaquin River was a major source of water to the delta," said Tom Zuckerman of the Central Delta Water Agency, which represents farmers in San Joaquin County.
		This was aggravated by the export of water from the delta to the west side of the San Joaquin Valley and the return of polluted drainage water back into the river.
	www.nrdc.org /media/pressreleases/030417.asp (1275 words)

	California, San Joaquin River Parkway Grows (CA): The Trust for Public Land
		The Spano River Ranch, wedged between the river and the northernmost growth of Fresno at Highway 41, is directly in the path of development.
		Efforts for preserving the river corridor began in the 1980s, when the first of a series of large subdivisions was proposed for development along the San Joaquin.
		The San Joaquin River Conservancy was created by the state Legislature to implement the San Joaquin River Parkway, a 22-mile regional greenspace and wildlife corridor in the river-bottom extending from Friant Dam to Highway 99, with an interconnected trail system and recreational and educational features.
	www.tpl.org /tier3_cd.cfm?content_item_id=13006&folder_id=266 (1038 words)

	SACRAMENTO / Judge rules irrigation contracts illegal / San Joaquin River diversions violate species act, he finds
		The San Joaquin River -- once one of the mightiest in the state -- is dry for much of the year for about 60 miles of its length.
		Environmentalists say the river's parched condition is due largely to Friant Dam, which allows irrigators to divert most of the San Joaquin's water.
		Kole Upton, a San Joaquin Valley farmer and the chairman of the Friant Water Users Authority, said he was not surprised by the decision.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/07/30/BAG7HE07D61.DTL (365 words)

	San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge
		San Joaquin River Refuge is in the acquisition and development phase, with public use facilities currently being developed.
		The refuge is within the historic floodplain of the confluences of the San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Tuolumne rivers.
		The limited facilities of San Joaquin River Refuge can be reached by driving 8 miles west of Modesto on State Highway 132, north on Gates Road, and west on Beckwith Road.
	www.fws.gov /refuges/profiles/index.cfm?id=11654 (239 words)

	Extra water flows down San Joaquin, allowing groundwater recharge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		For the first time in five years, San Joaquin River water is gushing out of Friant Dam's four big turbines, sending a rushing, chilly flow down the riverbed, and letting irrigation districts around the Central Valley recharge water banks depleted by a long dry spell.
		Since the San Joaquin was held back by Friant more than half a century ago, it has been in parts little more than a sandy, weed-choked trough — a home for tumbleweed and lizards, not fish.
		But the majority of the river's flow is still channeled down the Friant Kern canal, which sends river water to farmers on the east side of the Central Valley.
	sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2005/05/31/state/n135534D37.DTL (637 words)

	PRBO: San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge
		and the San Joaquin River National Wildlife Refuge, located just west of Modesto and now open to the public, initiated a project in 2000 to monitor songbird use of refuge lands along the San Joaquin River between the Stanislaus and Tuolumne River tributaries.
		A large-scale riparian restoration project planned by the Refuge and developed by Sacramento River Partners involving 3,300 acres of former agricultural lands within the San Joaquin River floodplain began in 2002.
		Restoration began in 2002 on portions of the 1,300 acres of floodplain lands slated for restoration adjacent to the San Joaquin River.
	www.prbo.org /cms/print.php?mid=108 (402 words)

	San Joaquin River May Not Dry Up This Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The San Joaquin River is critical to agricultural needs, so much so that usage leaves miles-long segments of riverbed dry by the end of summer.
		This year, however, the river is higher than it's been in almost 10 years, thanks to a snow pack that's 200 percent of normal in the lower Sierra Nevada.
		The San Joaquin is literally spilling over its banks near Fresno, slowly inundating a small park.
	www.news10.net /storyfull1.asp?id=11031 (208 words)

	Home Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The San Joaquin River Trail is a combination of existing trails, old trails to be reconstructed and new trails to be constructed.
		The Trail is being constructed and connected by the San Joaquin River Trail Council for hiking, mountain biking and equestrian use.
		The San Joaquin River Trail Council is a group of organizations with an interest in the Trail.
	www.sanjoaquinrivertrailcouncil.org (358 words)

	Subject: EIS, San Joaquin River Comprehensive Plan, March 22, 1995
		The San Joaquin Comprehensive Plan (Comprehensive Plan) is centered on riparian and riverine habitat improvements along the main corridor of the San Joaquin River, from Friant Dam to the confluence of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.
		As directed by CVPIA Section 3406(c)(1), the Department of the Interior developed a San Joaquin River Comprehensive Plan to address fish and habitat restoration concerns on the River.
		The CVPIA recognized over 40 years of fish and wildlife resource neglect along the San Joaquin River and specifically identifies the purpose of this project: to develop a comprehensive plan with components as outlined in Section 3406(c)(1).
	www.fwua.org /Restoration/Cpeisdrf-prl.htm (3746 words)

	An Uncertain Future for San Joaquin River (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		His father, Everett, and other downstream farmers watched the San Joaquin‘s water drop out of reach of their pumps, which were left perched high on the riverbanks like giant mechanical mosquitoes.
		Angrily protesting, farmers, mayors and businesspeople pointed out that their towns, jobs and crops have relied on San Joaquin River water for decades, and that some of the state‘s fastest growing cities are in the Central Valley.
		For the rest of its course, the river serves as a drain, taking leftover irrigation water from farm fields, mixing fertilizers, pesticides and other chemicals with runoff from city streets and golf courses and what little water still flows beyond the dams on the San Joaquin‘s tributaries.
	www.leadingthecharge.com /stories/news-0074003.html (1505 words)

	Bedform movement in Three Mile Slough near San Joaquin River
		The Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers are connected ahead of their confluence by a narrow channel, the naturally formed Threemile Slough.
		To follow the transport pathways of sandy bed material from the lower Sacramento River, bedforms have been mapped periodically since 1998 in a 0.5 km reach at the south end of the slough where a sand shoal forms at the entrance to the San Joaquin River.
		However, bedforms across the slough were all migrating southward during high discharges from the Sacramento River in February 2000.
	ca.water.usgs.gov /program/sfbay/calfedsed/BedformMovement.html (307 words)

	San Joaquin River Gorge (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The Wuh-ki'o Trail (Wuh-ki'o is the Dumna/Kechayi term for the San Joaquin River) starts from off the west side of the loop on the Pa'san Ridge Trail.
		On the Fresno County side of the Management Area is a portion of the San Joaquin River Trail(SJRT).
		Note: the San Joaquin River Gorge Management Area is open to the public year round, however, because of the hot summers, visitors will find it to be most enjoyable during fall, winter and spring seasons.
	www.blm.gov /ca/bakersfield/sanjoaquinrivergorge.html (716 words)

	Valley Voice Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Meanwhile, a Department of Interior Upper San Joaquin River Basin storage investigation continues for the next 2 years when a draft EIS/EIR is expected to move toward a new dam and reservoir above Millerton to help both water use of farmers and cities as well as the goals of river restoration.
		Second, a guarantee that at least 100,000 acre-feet of water, even in a critically dry year, be released for the salmon fishery, 125,000 acre-feet in a dry year, 150,000 acre-feet in a normal year, and 200,000 acre-feet in a wet year.
		Hendrix says repair and restoration along the river will require more water be released from the dam and lots of work along the channel through federal funding to increase the capacity to carry that water.
	www.valleyvoicenewspaper.com /sjrlawsuit.htm (897 words)

	NRDC Press Archive: NRDC Coalition Wins Ruling to Restore San Joaquin River
		Before Friant Dam's completion, the San Joaquin River supported one of the most important salmon fisheries on the Pacific coast and the southernmost Chinook salmon run in North America.
		Writing of the dam's damaging effects, the judge noted, "In the words of the Department of Interior, Friant Dam's operations have been a 'disaster' for Chinook salmon." Restoring the San Joaquin River could be one of the biggest, most important environmental restoration projects in California history.
		"The plight of the San Joaquin River is a national disgrace that must be remedied," said Dante Nomellini of the Central Delta Water Agency, an irrigation district that supported NRDC's position in the case with an amicus brief.
	www.nrdc.org /media/pressreleases/040827.asp (830 words)

	Profile: San Joaquin River Gorge - Hands on the Land
		BLM's San Joaquin River Gorge consists of approx.
		The area ranges in elevation from 750 feet to over 2,200 feet and is bisected by one of the state's largest rivers.
		The area is also in the heart of the wildland-urban interface, and as one of California's largest and most embattled rivers, the San Joaquin has quite a story to tell in regards to historic and contemporary struggles over water and hydro-power issues.
	www.handsontheland.org /profiles/profile_details.cfm?sitecode=sajo (236 words)

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