Comments on: Merritt Slough http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/merritt-slough/ focused on, near and under Oakland, California Sat, 18 May 2013 23:16:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Andrew http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/merritt-slough/#comment-810 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:29:05 +0000 http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-810 Ah, thanks, Naomi. A channel seems like such a dry, prosaic thing. I think I’ll stick with slough. I referred to it as a “creek” aware of the word’s ancient meaning of a small coastal waterway. It isn’t a creek in the sense we mean today.

]]> By: Naomi from Oakland http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/merritt-slough/#comment-809 Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:34:32 +0000 http://oaklandgeology.wordpress.com/?p=492#comment-809 There are some great old maps that show the original shore posted by the Oakland Library (Oakland History Room) at the California Digital Library website. Click “online items”
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt5b69q5bc

In many City of Oakland documents this is called the Lake Merritt Channel:
http://www.oaklandnet.com/cedahome_com/SiteData/cedahome/InetPub/wwwroot/main/dcsd_currentprojects_measure_dd_lakemerrittchannel.asp

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