By Alice Kaufman, Legislative Advocate How should you design a levee? Most people would answer that levees are intended for flood protection, and that bare or nearly bare earthen embankments, with water on one side and land on the other, do the job. The levees we are most familiar with in the Bay Area are...
Tag: salt ponds
Councilmember takes stand against Cargill
Committee for Green Foothills would like to commend Redwood City Councilmember Ian Bain for his recent op-ed, where he took a stand against Cargill’s plan to develop the salt ponds. In the San Mateo Journal article OP-ED: Salt ponds not zoned for housing (4/1/15) Bain said “I want it on record that I am not...
Cargill update: thank you Bay Area Members of Congress!
Have you heard the latest on the Redwood City salt ponds? After Cargill and developer DMB Associates spent years lobbying the U.S Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Army Corps of Engineers, the EPA has stepped up and will take over the jurisdictional determination of the site. This is good news and our local representatives played...