High Ground levee

This so-called “high ground” levee is proposed to be built around Stewart Tract. Construction would take place inside of the existing levee, which would remain. This diagram gives a sense of how the levee and adjacent landscape might work, and describes some of the benefits of the new inner levee.

Siphon spring diagram

Conceptual diagram of a peripheral canal siphon spring facility. Siphon springs would occur at the intersections of the proposed canal and existing Delta waterways. Siphon springs would be in part infrastructure, and part an occasion to create a new Delta recreational space.

The diagram shows a siphon passing under an existing Delta waterway, and two head-driven artificial artesian “springs” that would inject Sacramento River water into intersecting waterways.

Large Owner Axis Trail

The Large Owner Axis Trail is correlated to the 2009 Peripheral Canal proposal’s “through-Delta component. The trail extends from the proposed Sacramento River diversion facility in the North Delta to the State and Federal Water Project pumps in the southwest Delta. From north to south, the elements of the trail system include: Stone Lakes NWR Trail, Snodgrass Slough Lodgecamp, Pear and Vine Trail, Delta Cross Channel Lodgecamp, Historic Settlements Trail, Staten Island Lodgecamp, Birdwatchers’ and Sportsmens’ Trail, Bouldin Island Lodgecamp, Habitat Mitigation Trail, Connection Slough Anglers’ Dam, Bacon Island Lodgecamp, Railroad Cut Anglers’ Dam, Channel Islands Trail, Double Canal Anglers’ Dam, Victoria and North Canals Estate Trail, and Clifton Court Forebay Lodgecamp

South Delta section of Levee Urbanism

This cross section diagram describes the various components of Levee Urbanism in the South Delta. Channel making would increase water carrying capacity and water frontage for property development, a potential source of significant value for local landowners, and create habitat that would be managed by property owners.

Shimasaki Village

These are among the buildings that will be destroyed if Bacon Island becomes a reservoir. The building on the right would be saved in the Shimasaki Memorial project. It was a bunkhouse, kitchen and dining room.

Shimasaki Memorial, axonometric

Isometric diagram of the Shimasaki Memorial site showing pumping station, old bunkhouse, memorial, and charcoal plain.

Shimasaki Memorial bunkhouse

Bacon Island bunkhouse that would be restored as part of the Shimasaki Memorial.

Lodgecamp Systems Diagram

Exploded drawing describing the various technical systems of the Lodgecamp.

Lodgecamp Section

Cross section through Lodgecamp and adjacent areas. From left to right: Boating, Fishing, Living, Gardening, Farming.

Lodgecamp Plans - Upper Levels

Lodgecamp floor plans, upper levels.

Lodgecamp Locations (abandoned idea)

Diagram describing scenarios for the month-to-month occupation of the Staten Island lodgecamps. This was an early idea about the Lodgecamps, since abandoned in favor of distributing them along the length of the Large Owner Axis.

Lodgecamp - Panorama

View across fields toward two lodgecamps.

Lodgecamp - Garden view

A view across the Lodgecamp community garden, toward the levee crest.

Lodgegcamp Exchange Diagram

The farmworker gives squash to the birdwatcher. The birdwatcher tells the hunter where to hunt. The hunter gives a duck to the farmworker.

Lodgegcamp - View on a levee crest

Daily life at the Lodgecamp levee crest.

Levee Urbanism platform view

View from the levee crest through a Levee Urbanism bait shop.

Levee Urbanism field view

View toward the Oxbow Marina-style properties of the Levee Urbanism idea.

Shimasaki Memorial phasing

Diagram showing the phasing of the Shimasaki Memorial and its integration with the Delta Wetlands Project

Shimasaki Memorial constituents

Shimasaki Memorial axonometric views

Shimasaki Memorial archive