“Where some of the ponds once were, the locations were now flooded with seawater,” joSon told me. In place of the neon colors of industrial salt ponds, he began noticing “thousands of pearl-like brown ...
Construction equipment on the bank of pond A2W in Mountain View on Dec. 15, 2025. Photo by Magali Gauthier. Yearslong construction work to transform a 435-acre pond once used for salt harvesting into ...
In a move to restore vital marsh habitat and combat sea level rise, the East Bay Regional Park District has acquired 77-acres of the Hayward Regional Shoreline from the Hayward Area Recreation and ...