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In the Bay Area, we had the Reber Plan[1], to turn the bay into two fresh water lakes by building dams between Richmond-San Rafael, and Oakland-San Francisco.

Great photo of what it could have looked like[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reber_Plan [2] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/b5/1a/d6/b51ad6d2a...

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You can visit the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Bay Model in Sausalito. It is a huge room-sized model of the Bay you can walk around with rising and falling tides.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Army_Corps_of_Engineers_B...

With housing costs what they are in SFBA, this actually makes a lot of sense. I'd like to see some economics forecasts though -- and which municipality would control the new land?

This could be a chance for the state legislature to step in, declare it a state park, then add high-rises and lots of green open spaces. You could build the area up right the first time around, instead of this decades-old NIMBY thing going on now.

Sounds more promising than that HSR thing they're still arguing about.

There was also a plan in 1965 to fill part of the Bay by leveling San Bruno Mountain.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Bruno_Mountain

Taking the move a mountain idiom a little too far.

This is amazing...

I didnt realize that there was enough elevation diff in order for such a plan to occur. Off-hand, do you know what the elevation difference is??

The bay is very, very shallow[1]. Off hand, the average depth is less than 7 feet. Most of the depth is around the golden gate itself.

Around the king tides, an island forms just off of Ashby Ave, in Berkeley.

[1] http://makerandmoss.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/81ackqtij...

You're not wrong about the bay being mostly shallow. To clarify though, the bay's average depth in the southern and northern areas is closer to 15-17 ft and near the Golden Gate Bridge and Treasure Island area is closer to 40ft[1]. Maybe the median depth is closer to 7 feet.

[1] http://omp.gso.uri.edu/ompweb/doee/science/descript/baysfran...

Why not the whole bay in the plan?

that airport terminal though, horrible idea in hindsight

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