Reber Plan

As Reber Plan ( originally San Francisco Bay Project) is developed by John Reber in the 1940 plan referred to reshape the bay of San Francisco in such a way that land for the construction of roads, as well as civilian and military facilities, and won both the drinking water supply for the metropolitan area of San Francisco Bay Area would be enhanced. After considerable opposition from the population and a proven part of a feasibility study infeasibility of the project, the plan was the end of the 1950s eventually dropped.

Rebers plan

Reber's plan was to build huge dams in roughly where today the Richmond - San Rafael Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, the Bay of San Francisco span. The northern dam should range from Marin County in the west to Richmond in the east and the northern dam from San Francisco to Oakland. At the same time much of the Eastern Bay, San Pablo Bay and Richardson Bay should be harnessed through landfills. One of this area in north-south direction by pulling channel should serve the civilian and military shipping. In this way, two large freshwater lakes would have been incurred, according to Reber's performance at the north and south, which would have ensured the enormous drinking water needs of the region around San Francisco.

At the same time, the plan called for the installation of multi-lane highways and railways for rail transport. These roads have been available in the event of an attack on California from the Pacific Ocean for the relocation of the resident population in the west of the bay. In addition, the plan called for the construction of military facilities for the defense of the San Francisco Bay Area. All this must be seen against the background that the United States was at the time of Rebers plans still under the shock of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The feasibility study conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

In 1957, the United States Army Corps of Engineers conducted a feasibility study to Rebers plan. For this, the engineers built a 1.5 acres ( approximately 6,070 square feet) large scale model of the Bay of San Francisco. This now be visited in Sausalito, near San Francisco model helped the engineers of the United States Army in their understanding of the caused by the tidal water currents and sediment relocation in the bay. Within this simulation, however, also proved that John Reber's plan was not realized, and he was eventually abandoned.