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Charleston Slough is a former
Charleston Slough is a former Leslie
Leslie may refer to:
* Leslie (name), a name and list of people with the given name or surname, including fictional characters
Families
* Clan Leslie, a Scottish clan with the motto "grip fast"
* Leslie (Russian nobility), a Russian noble family ...
salt pond that is now reverting to marsh on the western shore of San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a large tidal estuary in the U.S. state of California, and gives its name to the San Francisco Bay Area. It is dominated by the big cities of San Francisco, San Jose, and Oakland.
San Francisco Bay drains water from a ...
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Environmental damage and recovery
In 1975Leslie Salt
The Leslie Salt Company was a salt-producing company located in the San Francisco Bay Salt Ponds, San Francisco Bay Area, at the current locations of Newark, California, Newark, Hayward, California, Hayward and other parts of the bay.
Background
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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.
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.
References
Landforms of Santa Clara County, California San Francisco Bay {{SantaClaraCountyCA-geo-stub