The great project to build the Oakland harbor in the inlet of San Antonio Creek — the Estuary — began with an act of Congress in 1873. It would rely on redirecting natural processes to serve human needs. The plan the federal engineers came up with, in 1874, depended on harnessing the daily tides to keep the shipping channels clean of the fine suspended mud that would otherwis...
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