Collinsville, California

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Collinsville is a unincorporated rural community in Solano County, California, USA. It is located next to the Sacramento River Delta on the north side of the Sacramento River, and is effectively separated from the more intense urban development in Contra Costa County immediately across the river. The area was once proposed for a major chemical plant of the Dow Chemical Company in the 1980s^[1].

[edit] Trivia

In 1985 Humphrey the Humpback whale strayed off his migration route and swam by Collinsville, ending up in Rio Vista at which point rescuers from The Marine Mammal Center and other volunteers were able to turn him around in the river channel.

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^ C.Michael Hogan and Marc Papineau, Air Quality Impact Analysis of the Proposed Dow Collinsville Plant, prepared by Earth Metrics Incorporated for Solano County (1980)