Saturday, March 12, 2005
ALBANY/BERKELEY
Restoration grant for Codornices Creek
By Patrick Hoge
The state Coastal Conservancy has awarded an $815,000 grant to
restore three blocks of Codornices Creek on the Berkeley-Albany border, a
project that will bring the length of the restored portion of the creek to
nearly a mile.
Codornices Creek originates in the Berkeley hills and
ends at the salt marsh south of Buchanan Street in Albany. Unlike other creeks
in the two cities, most of Codornices Creek has not been buried in culverts, and
it has a small but hardy population of trout.
The Coastal Conservancy,
which earlier gave $100,000 to the project, awarded the latest grant on
Thursday. Albany is spending $550,000 of local bond money, and the state
Department of Water Resources has committed $985,000 to the project.
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