Charleston Slough

Charleston Slough is a former Leslie salt pond that is now reverting to marsh^[1] on the western shore of San Francisco Bay.

Dawn at the slough

Environmental damage and recovery

In 1975 Leslie Salt owned the slough and used it for its salt water evaporation operations. The company shrunk the channel and drastically restricted the tides within the slough.^[2]

In 1996, the City of Mountain View embarked on an ambitious project to reverse the damage cause by Leslie, and returned the slough to a much more environmentally-friendly salt marsh.^[2] 37°26′31″N 122°05′33″W^[3]

References

1. Sexton, Jean Deitz (1992). Silicon Valley: inventing the future : a contemporary portrait. Windsor Publications. p. 250. ISBN 978-0897813891.
2. McCabe, Michael (September 13, 1996). "A Tide of Change at Charleston Slough". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
3. "Charleston Slough". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior. 19 January 1981. Retrieved 30 December 2016.

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