Reber Plan
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John Reber was an actor, theatrical producer, and schoolteacher who designed and advocated a plan to fill in the San Francisco Bay in the late 1940s. Under the plan, which was known as the San Francisco Bay Project or the Reber Plan, the Sacramento River mouth from Suisun Bay would be channelized by dams and would feed two freshwater lakes within the bay, providing drinking water to the residents of the bay area. The newly created land area, approximately 20,000 acres (81 km²), would be filled for residential, industrial, and military development[1].
The plan enjoyed brief political and popular support before being proven impractical by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and withdrawn.
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- ^ Bridging the Bay, Bridging the Campus: Salt Water Barriers. University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved on 2006-08-21.
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