Charleston Slough
Dawn at the slough
Charleston Slough is a former Leslie salt pond that is now reverting to marsh[1] on the western shore of San Francisco Bay.
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] Coordinates: 37°26′31″N 122°05′33″W / 37.4418837°N 122.0924628°W[3]
References[]
- ^ Sexton, Jean Deitz (1992). Silicon Valley: inventing the future : a contemporary portrait. Windsor Publications. p. 250. ISBN 978-0897813891.
- ^ a b McCabe, Michael (September 13, 1996). "A Tide of Change at Charleston Slough". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved 28 July 2014.
- ^ "Charleston Slough". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey. 19 January 1981. Retrieved 30 December 2016.
 | This Santa Clara County, California-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by . |
Categories:
- Landforms of Santa Clara County, California
- San Francisco Bay
- Santa Clara County, California geography stubs