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On the left is Baxter Creek at Booker T. Anderson,
Jr. Park, Richmond as construction began in August of 2000, and
on the right is Baxter Creek after project completion in December
2002. This project was also funded by the San Francisco Bay Fund
in the 2000 Grant round.
Additional information about this can be found on the UCC website
at:
Current
Projects of Urban Creeks Council of California
Technical details about the project are also available at:
Baxter
Creek Restoration Project - Natural Resource Projects Inventory
In 1999, the Urban Creeks Council of California (UCC) developed
a pilot program to assist private property owners with stream management
decisions on their properties. Through this program, UCC offers
alternative low cost, environmentally friendly, suggestions to conventional
bank stabilization methods. Several homeowners who lived along Alhambra
Creek in Martinez, California decided to pursue a joint restoration
project. UCC developed a bank stabilization conceptual design for
the site, however, the homeowners decided not to go ahead with the
project and erosion problems persist at the site.
Please see the
following document for the full report:
Bank
Stabilization Conceptual Design Report
(6 page .pdf file)
From the San
Francisco Chronicle:
(Includes photographs)
Water Warriors - United
(Urban) Creeks Council Quietly Fights to Bring Streams to Light
From the Oakland
Tribune:
Oakland
Starts $850,000 Creek Revamp - Polluted section of Peralta Creek
in Cesar Chavez Park to get new plants, bridge and pathway this
summer
(2 page .pdf file)
For information
about other Urban Creeks Council projects listed below, refer to
the following summary descriptions:
Current
Projects of Urban Creeks Council of California
- Codornices
Creek Watershed Restoration Action Plan (CCWRAP), Berkeley.
- Lower Codornices
Creek, Berkeley.
- Baxter Creek
at Booker T. Anderson, Jr. Park, Richmond.
- Wildcat Creek
at 23rd Street, San Pablo.
- Lower Wildcat
Creek, North Richmond.
- Village Creek,
Albany.
- Upper Baxter
Creek, Poinsett Park, El Cerrito.
- Blackberry
Creek, Berkeley
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