The San Diego Bay Watersheds Common Grounds Project was created to incorporate data from water quality monitoring programs and integrate this data on a watershed level using a web-based interactive application to serve as a broad communication, education and decision-making tool; and to further develop the region's capacity to understand and assess processes affecting our water resources.

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1900

BY 1900, SAN DIEGO HAD LOST ITS FRONTIER APPEARANCE. Throughout its emergence as a thoroughly modern city, San Diego kept its eyes focused on the harbor and continued to look for ways to make the vision of a great commercial port a reality.

High spirits and optimism characterized the mood of the city after 1900. When word about the proposed construction of the Panama Canal reached San Diego , the news created tremendous excitement. San Diego was the closest western port of call to the canal. The region's prosperous and growing agricultural market, combined with the potential for development of the port and railroad, would undoubtedly bring the commerce that generations of San Diegans had sought.



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