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Brewer Island (Foster City, California)

USA / California / Foster City / Foster City, California
 invisible, man-made island
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Brewer Island was originally a tidal marsh wetland with several tidal sloughs flowing through it, Seal Slough (Seal Creek), O'Neill Slough (O'Neill Creek), Angelo Slough (Angelo Creek), and Belmont Slough (Belmont Creek). Brewer Island area was diked and dredged, used for salt evaporation, and some animal grazing beginning in the early-to-mid-20th century. In the mid-1960s, the land was further developed, and bay fill was added to the periphery of Brewer Island, connecting it via causeways and bridges with other islands such as Guano Island, and dredging areas of the sloughs to make a lagoon area controlled by tide-gates. Foster City was developed on the expanded Brewer Island, Guano Island, several newly created islands, and parts of other bay fill wetlands which were within a larger dike levee formed by the foundations of the salt evaporator dike system and other berms built up with riprap.
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Coordinates:   37°33'14"N   122°16'9"W

Comments

  • Steven (guest)
    It's called Foster City. Nobody calls it Brewer Island and if you actually go to Foster City nobody in City Hall calls it that either and you won't find any literature calling it Brewer Island.
  • MapOfManyColors (guest)
    The name of the geographic island feature is called Brewer Island. Foster City and San Mateo are separate and different feature entities that are located on parts of Brewer Island.
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