San Joaquin Valley

A few years have passed since the kind Miss Joyce drove the Beechams to San Joaquin Valley. Much had changed. The brown and white cottage was bursting with life. The day starts just as dawn breaks. Rose-Ellen, Dick and Jimmie begin getting dressed for school. Rose-Ellen and Dick are in the 9th reader and Jimmie is in the second. After hard work and much patience he learned how to read. It turns out he has a knack for math and greatly enjoys it. Daddy and Grandpa get ready to work in the grapevines

The San Joaquin River Valley Project represents a comprehensive long term effort to restore the flow of the San Joaquin River. After reading the article, “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” by Bill McEwen I chose and decided to use this article because it has plenty of reasonable facts. Bill McEwen emerged as veteran journalist who has worked in various positions for the Bee since 1980. He grew up in the community and knows how everything works. The article McEwen wrote operated and published

The Valley. If the water is contaminated by the airborne pollutants, whether by depositing through direct water surface contact or by depositing on land and being carried to water bodies through run off, the residents will face problems. Once in the water, these pollutants can cause the fish to poison people upon consumption, or the fish could die out. Harmful algal blooms could occur; the water will become contaminated and unsafe to drink. This might seem like an exaggeration but in the San Joaquin

through the valley you may start to smell a particular difference in the air, and not in a good way. Perhaps you didn’t know that San Joaquin Valley is one of two districts in the county to be classified by Enviornmental Protection Agency (EPA) as “extreme nonattainment” ("The Air District’s Mission"), which means it is considered to have the worst air quality; worse than the National Ambient Air Quality Standards as defined in the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1970 ("Google"). Also, San Joaquin County

exasperated by traffic congestion and geographical characteristics of the region. Improvements in air quality are critical in an area that has faced extreme challenges with air quality and pollution related diseases. Under the Clean Air Act, the San Joaquin Valley is classified as a non-attainment area and the conditions are extreme for the 8-Hr Ozone standards and moderate for PM-2.5. Located in a basin, the area has a non-attainment profile that closely mirrors Los Angeles air quality districts.

The Central Valley consist of three major counties Modesto, Fresno and Bakersfield. Together these three counties produce a little over half of the nation’s produce. With a population of over 6.5 million people the Central Valley is also consider by Public Policy Institute of California the fastest growing region of California. With the ever growing population and growing need for more agriculture that leads to a larger air quality issue. This paper will discuss the sources, factors, roles, issues

The San Joaquin Valley Environment: Live Well or Live Long? According to Doyle Rice of USA Today Newspaper, “California is currently in it's fourth year (2012-2015) of one of the state's worst droughts in the past century.” In August of 2014, all of California was declared to be in a drought and over half of the state was in “exceptional” drought, the worst level (Rice). This drought has led to violent wildfires, water shortages, and potentially staggering agricultural losses. Because of the severity

The San Joaquin Valley is home to over 3.5 million people who reside in the counties of Fresno, Kern, Merced, Stanislaus, Tulare, Kings, Madera, and San Joaquin. It is approximately 250 miles long, and is surrounded by three different mountain ranges, which gives it a narrow bowl-shape that collects and traps emissions in the surrounding counties. The air quality in the California Central Valley ranks among the worst in the country, which results from high levels of ozone (o3) and particulate matter

pollution in the San Joaquin Valley in California. Those components are the main reason for the air to be polluted and causing harm to the residents of the valley. The San Joaquin Valley is known very well for its agriculture. This according to an article called “Move Over, Los Angeles” By Marylin Berlin Snell talks about the main point of how serious the air quality has been and how it has been becoming worse than the city of Los Angeles. The southern part of the great central valley has now been covered

Introduction A hurricane is an intense storm of tropical origin with sustained winds exceeding 74 miles per hour. The San Joaquin valley does not experience hurricanes but if it did it would destroyed many lives around the world. First of all it would destroy tourism because as an industry it would be vulnerable because of its sensitivity to visitors. “In order for the industry to make profit, it must successfully commoditize, package, and sell travel experiences to consumers, so that victor would