Tom
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What's a 'slough'?
Steve, it's not quite the dictionary definition, but we use 'slough' to describe one of the hundreds of interlinking channels that form the California delta (aka the Sacramento/San Joaquin delta), in and around the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers as they flow down into San Francisco bay. See this for a pictorial sketch - the blue bits are water The sketch shows only a fraction of the sloughs which together provide 1200 miles of waterway but, if you click on various areas of the sketch, it will bring up various sections of the navigation chart for the area.