Gates and Barriers in the Delta

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  In 2014, the California Natural Resources Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior asked the authors of this paper, as four former...

  In 2014, the California Natural Resources Agency and the U.S. Department of the Interior asked the authors of this paper, as four former leaders of The Delta Science Program, to summarize the challenges faced by water supply and ecological resource managers in this critically important region of Northern California. They concluded that the challenges are so
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