San Joaquin Watershed

WOODROW WILSON ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE INSTITUTE RUTGERS 1998

Watershed Description/Data:

    * Drains an area of approximately 20,000 square miles, more than the states of New York
       and New Jersey. USGS Water Resources of California
    * Less than 2.2 million acre feet of flow as average.
    * Has its main fork origin in the Ritter Range to the Thousand Island lakes in the Sierra
       Nevada Mountains.
    * In the San Joaquin's 400 mile and 13,000 vertical feet descent it travels from the
       High Sierra snow fields, through deep gorges, into the rolling foot hills, and onto the
       agricultural plains of the San Joaquin Valley to end at the Sacramento delta.
       USGS Classification and Mapping of Agricultural land for National Water-Quality Assement
    * 19 dams and 27 power plants alter the San Joaquin's natural course and flow.
       Upper San Joaquin River Action Alert

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