Satellite view of the Sacramento -San Joaquin River Delta and adjacent areas, including Suisun Bay.

From: http://geology.com/news/images/sacramento-river-delta.jpg 

 

Fig. 4.16. A generalized map of the channels that make up the Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta/Estuary. Virtually all channels have been realigned through the construction of levees and the draining of large tracts of land. (Based on California Department of Water Resources maps.)

From: www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/6664/6664.ch04.html

Jeffrey F. Mount
California Rivers and Streams
The Conflict Between Fluvial Process and Land Use

 

From: rubicon.water.ca.gov/v1cwp/figs/f10-1.html