Dry, windy days tend to happen more frequently during the fall season ... may be over 40 mph in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valley as well as the delta and coastal mountains.

The 1,760-square-mile San Joaquin River Basin that the San Joaquin River and its web of tributaries provides with snowmelt ...

The Sacramento - San Joaquin Delta (the Delta) is the heart of California's water source and the center of the transfer system. The Delta is an 837,594 acres area where the Sacramento and San Joaquin ...

The Delta smelt is the poster child of all that is wrong in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. This year, the number of Delta smelt was essentially zero; i.e., it is either extinct or very close to it.

The goal is to upgrade the massive system that sends water to 27 million people, mostly in Southern California, and vast sprawls of farmland.

from farms in the San Joaquin Valley to the Southern California megalopolis. Known as the California Delta, the estuary is among the state’s most important sources of water — and most ...

Every spring and fall, thousands of these fish—each ... "The salmon fishery in the San Joaquin River delta area is on the verge of collapsing," said Mike Gil, the paper's first author and ...

While striped bass fishing has shut off on the lower Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers on the Delta as the fish moved ... The previous day of fishing also produced fall limits of both bass and ...