Cordelia Slough

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Cordelia Slough (Latitude: 38°8'9" N; Longitude: 122°4'58 W)[1] is a tidal watercourse which discharges to the Suisun Slough, which in turn empties into Grizzly Bay in Solano County, California, USA.[2] The Suisun Slough, fed by the Green River and Red Top Creek, provides a productive habitat for a diversity of aquatic flora and fauna. In particular steelhead migrate up Cordelia Slough to spawn in its two tributaries.[3] Cordelia bay is known for its species biodiversity and also for prevalence of endangered species such as Sacramento splittail, Pogonichthys macrolepidotus and the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse.[4] [5] Cordelia Slough is considered a subarea of the Grizzly Island Wildlife Area, which is a State of California designated Wildlife Area[6] Some areas which drain into Cordelia Slough from the north are subject to development pressure from the expanding population of the San Francisco Bay Area;[7] correspondingly, there are increasing risks of adverse water quality due to urban surface runoff from such new development.

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  1. ^ USGS GNIS: Cordelia Slough
  2. ^ Interactive on line map of Cordelia Slough
  3. ^ Recovery of Steelhead and Salmon in Northern California
  4. ^ San Francisco Estuary Baylands Ecosystems Goals (1998)
  5. ^ Native and Introduced Larval Fishes of Suisun Bay and its Tributaries
  6. ^ List of State of California Wildlife and other Protected Areas
  7. ^ Phase I Environmental Site Assessment, Parcel 180-140-03, Fairfield, California, Earth Metrics Inc. Report 10301, November 28, 1989
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