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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A river of central California, rising in the Sierra Nevada and flowing about 560 km (350 mi) west and northwest to form a delta with the Sacramento River near San Francisco Bay. The San Joaquin Valley is an irrigated agricultural region.
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- noun a river in central California that rises in the Sierra Nevada and flows northwest to form a large delta with the Sacramento River
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(PINKSHEETS: NYMH), an innovative metals and mining company headquartered in Port Jefferson, N.Y., today announced that the United States Coast Guard has approved the raising and salvage of the M/V San Leandro and the M/V Fresno in the San Joaquin River, which is located approximately 2 miles from NYMET's port facility.
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Central California's San Joaquin River was another such example, but in this case there's a happy ending in the works: a major effort is underway to restore the river and its once-prized salmon runs.
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The Stevenson Creek Test Dam rose over a quiet tributary of the San Joaquin River about fifty miles from Fresno.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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The Stevenson Creek Test Dam rose over a quiet tributary of the San Joaquin River about fifty miles from Fresno.
Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010
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Central California's San Joaquin River was another such example, but in this case there's a happy ending in the works: a major effort is underway to restore the river and its once-prized salmon runs.
Lori Pottinger: Sold Down the River; Fishers Fight for Healthy Rivers 2010
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Also, in a landmark case in defense of salmon environmentalists have won a fight in California mandating the rehabilitation of the San Joaquin River to the salmon producing stream that it was over sixty years ago, before they dammed it for irrigation water.
A Fish Story 2009
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The southern part of the San Joaquin Valley drains to basins and does not reach the San Joaquin River.
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Many slow moving rivers flow to the delta east of San Francisco Bay via the Sacramento and San Joaquin River systems.
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Senate last month authorizes the federal Bureau of Reclamation to fund, design and construct groundwater banks and water recycling projects in California in conjunction with local governments and to restore flows and fish to the San Joaquin River.
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Meanwhile, in an effort to resurrect California's second largest river system, theFedswill soon begin releasing more water out of the Friant Dam into the parched San Joaquin River and its dying delta.
Lori Pottinger: Dammed Crazy: What Do California's Water Woes Teach Us? 2009
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