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Any one else have a bad tomato season?
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, Billy wrote: In article , 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. -- Dan Abel Petaluma, California USA |
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