Brewer Island (Foster City, California)
USA /
California /
Foster City /
Foster City, California
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/ USA
/ California
/ Foster City
invisible, man-made island

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.
Nearby cities:
Coordinates: 37°33'14"N 122°16'9"W
- Northerly Island 2986 km
- Sunken Island 3854 km
- Bird Island 3855 km
- Stake Bank 4009 km
- Fleming Key (US Navy) 4082 km
- Sigsbee Park (Dredgers Key) (US Navy) 4084 km
- Ocean Cay 4263 km
- Hikina Island (a.k.a. "East Island") 5150 km
- Ocean Reef Island - East 5336 km
- Ocean Reef Island - West 5336 km
- Foster City Lagoon 0.4 km
- Bridgepointe Shopping Center 1.3 km
- Guano Island 1.8 km
- Redwood Shores 2.9 km
- San Mateo County Event Center 3 km
- Seal Point Park 3.6 km
- San Mateo-Hayward Bridge 7 km
- SFPUC Peninsula Watershed 10 km
- San Francisco Bay 18 km
- San Andreas Fault Zone 85 km
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