In article
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Billy wrote:

In article
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Dan Abel wrote:

in the Petaluma Valley, in the flatlands within 1/2 mile of the Petaluma
River (which isn't actually a river at all, since it is brackish water
and flows backwards when the tide is coming in and there is no rain).

Sorry. By the way, brackish water that flows backwards when the tide is
coming in is called an estuary.

Didn't know that. I've heard it referred to as a "slough", but my
dictionary doesn't support that. It used to be the Petaluma Creek.
There is a lot of tonnage that travels on the river. That's mostly
because it's gravel, which is very heavy. When the creek got silted up,
the city asked the Army Corps of Engineers to dredge it. They just
laughed. They didn't dredge creeks, just rivers. So the city got the
state to change it to a river. So the Army Corps of Engineers dredged
it, and does it about every three years.

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA