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  • From: Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] California
  • Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2007 08:33:08 -0500


No Okefenokee Swamp.

I wonder about the Delta area before the dikes were built.

For those who don't know, the confluence of the Sacramento River from the north with the San Joaquin River from the south has contiguous to it a large area called the Delta that was tamed with dikes, the water pumped out, and the below-water-level islands thereby created have rich peat land valuable for farming.

Seems to me that before the dikes were built, that area may have been a huge swamp.






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