The San Joaquin Valley of California has seen environmental issues arise from agricultural production, industrial processing, and the region's use as...
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The San Joaquin Valley (/ˌsæn hwɑːˈkiːn/ SAN whah-KEEN; Spanish: Valle de San Joaquín) is the southern half of California's Central Valley. Famed as a...
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starts in the high Sierra Nevada and flows through the rich agricultural region of the northern San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco...
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formed at the western edge of the Central Valley by the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers and lies just east of where the rivers enter...
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Coccidioidomycosis (redirect from San Joaquin valley fever)
cocci, Valley fever, as well as California fever, desert rheumatism, or San Joaquin Valley fever. Coccidioidomycosis is endemic in certain parts of the United...
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The San Joaquins is a passenger train service operated by Amtrak in California's San Joaquin Valley. Seven daily round trips run between its southern...
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Altamont Corridor Express (redirect from San Joaquin Regional Rail Commission)
Commuting from the San Joaquin Valley or the Tri-Valley to Silicon Valley required using a car or limited bus service. In 1989, the San Joaquin Council of...
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The San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) is an endangered species of fox that was formerly very common in the San Joaquin Valley and much of Central...
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Tulare Lake (redirect from Islands in Tulare Lake)
lake in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California, United States. Historically, Tulare Lake was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi...
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Valley Rail is a project to expand Altamont Corridor Express (ACE) and Amtrak California San Joaquins commuter rail services, divided into several segments...
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incidents in the San Joaquin Valley is a topic covering the justice and health issues of people living in the San Joaquin Valley resulting from the use of...
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grow along Valley rivers which previously would flood each spring, and transformed the semi-arid desert environment of the San Joaquin Valley into productive...
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Environment of California (redirect from Environmental issues in California)
the Colorado River Aqueduct to Los Angeles in 1941. U.S. Bureau of Reclamation public works projects included Friant Dam on the San Joaquin River in 1942...
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Porterville is a city at the base of Southern Sierra Nevada mountains on the eastern side of San Joaquin Valley, in Tulare County, California, United States...
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Visalia, California (redirect from Environmental issues in Visalia, California)
in the agricultural San Joaquin Valley of California. The population was 141,384 as per the 2020 census. Visalia is the fifth-largest city in the San...
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Lieutenant José Joaquín Moraga arrived in the Santa Clara Valley with 14 settlers and their families on November 29, 1777 to found El Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe...
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areas in the San Joaquin Valley and Inland Empire, face a higher exposure to air pollution and environmental injustices. In such areas, those in poverty-stricken...
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Mokelumne River (category Geography of the San Joaquin Valley)
Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, where it empties into the San Joaquin River-Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel. Together with its main tributary, the Cosumnes...
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Delta–Mendota Canal (category Geography of the San Joaquin Valley)
completed in 1951 by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as part of the Central Valley Project. It carries freshwater to replace San Joaquin River water which...
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California High-Speed Rail (redirect from High speed rail in California)
San Francisco to Los Angeles, compared to about nine hours on the existing Amtrak San Joaquins. Construction of Phase 1 began in the Central Valley in...
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Satellite measurements found that in just the combined Sacramento and San Joaquin River basins, including the Central Valley, overdrafting between 2011 and...
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Sacramento River (redirect from Environmental issues in the Sacramento River)
Rising in the Klamath Mountains, the river flows south for 400 miles (640 km) before reaching the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta and San Francisco...
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Stanislaus River (category Geography of the San Joaquin Valley)
three forks in the high Sierra Nevada, the river flows generally southwest through the agricultural San Joaquin Valley to join the San Joaquin south of Manteca...
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Delta Conveyance Project (category San Joaquin Valley)
the Sacramento River southward under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to Bethany Reservoir for use by the State Water Project and the Central Valley Project...
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2017. London, Jonathan (2011). "Cumulative Environmental Vulnerabilities in California's San Joaquin Valley" (PDF). UC Davis Center for Regional Change...
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List of California tornadoes (redirect from List of tornadoes in California)
officially rated F1 by the National Weather Service office in San Joaquin Valley, California. January 11, 1951 – A narrow F2 tornado struck the cities of Los Altos...
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Cosumnes River (category Tributaries of the San Joaquin River)
5 km) into the Central Valley, emptying into the Mokelumne River in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Cosumnes is one of very few rivers in the western...
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Interstate 580 (California) (redirect from Interstate 580 in California)
the southern San Joaquin Valley and Southern California via I-5, as I-5 bypasses the Bay Area to the east. A portion of I-580 is called the MacArthur Freeway...
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by environmental change UNESCO Working Group on Land Subsidence "San Joaquin Valley is Still Sinking". earthobservatory.nasa.gov. March 5, 2017. "The Water...
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Kings River (California) (category Geography of the San Joaquin Valley)
one of the deepest river gorges in North America. The river is impounded in Pine Flat Lake before flowing into the San Joaquin Valley (the southern...
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