Excerpt from Information on Waterfowl Protection Program at Kesterson Reservoir Kesterson Reservoir consists of 12 shallow ponds with a total water-surface area of about acres and an average depth of about 4 feet. The Bureau designed it to regu late flows in the San Luis Drain, a canal that was originally planned to discharge to the western Delta at Suisun Bay. The partially completed drain ends at Kesterson Reser voir, which the Bureau is using to store and evaporate agricultural drainage water from about acres near Mendota. Kesterson Reservoir is just east of Gustine at the northern end of an area commonly known as the grasslands. The grasslands are mainly marsh and pasture lands in the flood plain of the San Joaquin River and provide important wintering habitat for waterfowl on the Pacific flyway. The San Joaquin River di vides the lands into the east grasslands, which covers about acres, and the west grasslands, which includes about acres. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.