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Oakley Project Featured in American Rivers

by ECT

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Hat tip Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed for alerting me to a Feb. 13 piece by Sara Larson in the American Rivers who featured the Creekside Park Project.

Sara Larson writes;

American Rivers’ partners, the Natural Heritage Institute and Friends of Marsh Creek Watershed, worked with the City of Oakley and the local flood control district to restore a section of channel and reconnect the creek to the community.

Originally, a chain link fence stood between the proposed Creekside Park and the creek, but enlightened city leaders, Kevin Romick and City Manager Bryan Montgomery, saw the potential of restoring the creek and integrating it into the city park. American Rivers’ partners helped the city get a million dollar grant from the California Resource Agency’s River Parkway Program to restore the creek and integrate it into the new city park. This fall the Restoration Design Group restored 3.5 acres of floodplain habitat and planted it with trees. They also constructed a new bridge over the creek which links the park to a regional trail system.

Here is the full article which is a worthy read

Note: the above pictures were taken back in November.

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