The Subsidence of Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta Islands

The delta’s sinking island (Peter FIMRITE, San Francisco Chronicle; January 13, 2020)

https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/The-Delta-s-sinking-island-14966090.php

Selected Research Articles:

Chemically Enhanced Treatment Wetland to Improve Water Quality and Mitigate Land Subsidence in the Sacramento‒San Joaquin Delta: Cost and Design Considerations (BACHAND et al., 2019)

https://escholarship.org/content/qt968934w3/qt968934w3.pdf

Modeling Salt intrusion in the San Francisco Estuary prior to anthropogenic influences (ANDREWS et al., 2017)

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S027843431630406X/pdfft?isDTMRedir=true&download=true

Present-day oxidative subsidence of Organic soils and mitigation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, California, USA (DEVEREL et al., 2016)

https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007%2Fs10040-016-1391-1.pdf

Delta Subsidence Reversal, Levee Failure, and Aquatic Habitat—A Cautionary Tale (BATES and LUND, 2013)

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Matthew_Bates6/publication/287238237_Delta_Subsidence_Reversal_Levee_Failure_and_Aquatic_Habitat-A_Cautionary_Tale/links/56bb2d7208ae127edd559354/Delta-Subsidence-Reversal-Levee-Failure-and-Aquatic-Habitat-A-Cautionary-Tale.pdf?origin=publication_detail

Islands, Sacramento River Delta, California

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Websites:

San Francisco Estuary Partnership

https://www.sfestuary.org/

The Delta (California Department of Water Resources)

https://water.ca.gov/Water-Basics/The-Delta