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The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: The Evolution and Implementation of Water Policy: An Historical Perspective

Alan M. Paterson, W. Turrentine Jackson | June 1st, 1977


This report is a history of the attempts to control the encroachment of salinity from San Francisco Bay into the Delta of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from 1920 to the present. Two basic solutions to the problem present themselves: the physical separation of salt water from fresh water by means of a barrier at some point downstream from the Delta, or the release of sufficient water from upstream storage reservoirs to drive back tidal salinity.

Keywords

flows, Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta, salinity, water quality