Franks Tract State Recreation Area is a protected area

Protected areas of the United States

The protected areas of the United States are managed by an array of different federal, state, tribal and local level authorities and receive widely varying levels of protection. Some areas are managed as wilderness, while others are operated with acceptable commercial exploitation. , according to...

 in the U.S. state

U.S. state

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 of California

California

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. It is accessible only by water.

Franks Tract, which is often called a submerged lake, is situated between the San Joaquin River

San Joaquin River

The San Joaquin River is the largest river of Central California in the United States. At over long, the river starts in the high Sierra Nevada, and flows through a rich agricultural region known as the San Joaquin Valley before reaching Suisun Bay, San Francisco Bay, and the Pacific Ocean...

 and Bethel Island. It was originally reclaimed in 1902, and was given over to farming until the winter of 1937, when the False River levee

Levee

A levee, levée, dike , embankment, floodbank or stopbank is an elongated naturally occurring ridge or artificially constructed fill or wall, which regulates water levels...

broke and Franks Tract was flooded.

External links

• Official site