[CPEO-IRF] Former Hamilton Field (CA) wetlands restoration

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Massive effort to restore Hamilton marshland

Mark Prado
Marin Independent Journal (CA)
January 19, 2008


The black ooze pouring out the end of a seven-mile-long pipe onto the 
old Hamilton Airfield runway is beginning to bring new life to marshland 
that was diked and dried more than a century ago.

"Not very pretty, is it?" said Eric Jolliffe, environmental planner with 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, as he watched the chocolate syrup-like 
material flow into a growing pool on a foggy morning. "But that's good 
stuff."

The sludge coming out of the tube is a rich mix of sand and soil pulled 
from the bottom of the Port of Oakland and piped to Marin, part of a 
$200 million project funded by federal, state and local dollars that is 
the largest wetlands restoration program ever attempted on the West Coast.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.marinij.com/marin/ci_8023611

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org



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