Suisun Bay (/səˈsuːn/sə-SOON; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in Northern California. It lies at the confluence of the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River, forming the entrance to the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta, an inverted river delta. To the west, Suisun Bay is drained by the Carquinez Strait, which connects to San Pablo Bay, a northern extension of San Francisco Bay. Grizzly Bay forms a northern extension of Suisun Bay. Suisun Bay is between Contra Costa County to the south and Solano County to the north.
The bay was named in 1811, after the Suisunes, a Patwin tribe of Wintun Indians.
The Central Pacific Railroad built a train ferry that operated between Benicia and Port Costa, California, from 1879 to 1930. The ferry boats Solano and Contra Costa were removed from service when the nearby Martinez railroad bridge was completed in 1930. From 1913 until 1954 the Sacramento Northern Railway, an electrified interurban line, crossed Suisun Bay with the Ramon, a distillate-powered train ferry.
On April 28, 2004, a petroleum pipeline operated by Kinder Morgan Energy Partners ruptured, initially reported as spilling 1,500 barrels (264m³) of diesel fuel in the marshes, but, this was later updated to about 2,950 barrels. Kinder Morgan pleaded guilty to operating a corroded pipeline (and cited for failing to notify authorities quickly after the spill was discovered) and paid three million dollars in penalties and restitution.[2][3]
^"Suisun Bay". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
^"Assault on America: A Decade of Petroleum Company Disaster, Pollution, and Profit". NWF. 2010.
^Mike Taugher (August 18, 2010). "Oil spill fine goes to restore Suisun Marsh wetlands". Times-Herald. Retrieved June 28, 2018.
SuisunBay (/səˈsuːn/ sə-SOON; Wintun for "where the west wind blows") is a shallow tidal estuary (a northeastern extension of the San Francisco Bay) in...
The SuisunBay Reserve Fleet colloquially known as the mothball fleet, is located on the northwest side of SuisunBay (the northern portion of the greater...
once used as a disposal site for radioactive waste. SuisunBay is an arm of the San Francisco Bay estuary which connects the Sacramento and San Joaquin...
MARAD (US Maritime Administration). Several of its sites, such as at SuisunBay in California, are also used to store regular Navy ships. Ships placed...
Governments defines the Bay Area as including the nine counties that border the estuaries of San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and SuisunBay: Alameda, Contra...
Reserve Fleet); Beaumont, Texas (Beaumont Reserve Fleet); and SuisunBay, California (SuisunBay Reserve Fleet); and at designated outported berths. Former...
listed from those entering nearest the bays to farthest). The Central Valley watershed feeding into SuisunBay via the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta is...
mountains, flow into SuisunBay, which then travels through the Carquinez Strait to meet with the Napa River at the entrance to San Pablo Bay, which connects...
SuisunBay and the Carquinez Strait on its northeast end, and it connects to the Pacific Ocean via the San Francisco Bay on its southern end. The bay...
(also called the Suisun and the "People of the West Wind") were a Patwin tribe of Wintun people, originating in the SuisunBay and Suisun Marsh regions of...
abandoned) at Pittsburg and north of SuisunBay including the northward turn under the SF & SP to the SuisunBay shore. The track Rio Vista-Creed is still...
In late 1996, the ship was towed from the mothball fleet in SuisunBay to San Francisco Bay, where much of the existing rig structure around the moon pool...
was founded on its hot springs. The three interconnected Suisun, San Pablo and San Francisco bays occupy a structural depression dating to the Pliocene which...
consisted of about fifty World War II ships that were moored in SuisunBay (SuisunBay Reserve Fleet) near San Francisco since the 1950s or '60s. The fleet...
Grizzly Bay is a baylet of the San Francisco Bay, and an extension of SuisunBay, which dips into Solano County, California. Grizzly Bay contains many...
storage of inactive nuclear powered vessels. Inactive ship facilities in SuisunBay, James River and Beaumont, Texas are owned and operated by the Maritime...
now staged at the James River (off Ft. Eustis, VA); Beaumont, TX; and SuisunBay (off Benicia, CA) anchorages, and other designated locations. A Ready...
Francisco Bay. The strait is eight miles (13 km) long and connects SuisunBay, which receives the waters of the combined rivers, with San Pablo Bay, a northern...
Strait, at the inland eastern extreme of San Pablo Bay. Further inland are the Suisun and Grizzly Bays, arms of the Pacific Ocean deep in the Californian...
1798 – c. 1851) was a leader of the Suisunes, a Patwin people of the SuisunBay region of northern California. Baptized as Francisco Solano and also known...
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