Hoffman Channel
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Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...
connecting San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...
with Hoffman Marsh
Hoffman Marsh
Hoffman Marsh is a wetlands in Richmond, California bordering Point Isabel Regional Shoreline and Interstate 80. The marsh is the delta for the mouth of Fluvius Innominatus creek into the Hoffman Channel which lead to San Francisco Bay. The marsh has been proposed to be included in the Eastshore...
and Fluvius Innominatus
Fluvius Innominatus
Fluvius Innominatus or Central Creek is a creek in Richmond and El Cerrito, California in western Contra Costa County. There is one main source and a secondary unnamed tributary. The creek drains into Hoffman Marsh and then flows into the bay through Point Isabel Regional Shoreline's Hoffman Channel...
creek which drain directly into the channel. The channel is part of Point Isabel Regional Shoreline
Point Isabel Regional Shoreline
Point Isabel Regional Shoreline in Richmond, California, operated by East Bay Regional Park District, is an award-winning park offering activities for humans as well as dogs. It also features a concession offering food for humans and grooming for pets. It has easy access for pedestrians, public...
, the largest dog park in the United States and serves a swimming are for these animals. Hoffman Channel is adjacent to Point Isabel promontory
Promontory
Promontory may refer to:*Promontory, a prominent mass of land which overlooks lower lying land or a body of water*Promontory, Utah, the location where the United States first Transcontinental Railroad was completed...
and was formerly a sandy beach on its south shore.