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Spectators watch from a bridge Wednesday, October 8, 2008, as an excavator digs up a levee at Mt. Eden Creek in the Eden Landing Ecological Reserve along the Hayward, Calif., shoreline. MIKE LUCIA/Oakland Tribune  
Times  

Marsh rehab

New Bay Area wetlands created with breach of berm

A backhoe clawed through a dirt berm Wednesday, creating a channel that Bay water poured through to former industrial salt ponds that had not tasted tidal waters for more than a century. (Contra Costa Times)
Felipe Robles of Stockton paints heavy-gauge metal pipes on the new Water Recycling Project Wednesday at the Wastewater Treatment Facility in Watsonville. The pipes connect to the coastal distribution system. REGISTER-PARAJONIAN  
Register-Parajonian  

Coastal connection

Watsonville recycling project about 95% complete

Watsonville’s Water Recycling Project, expected to provide more than 1 billion gallons of treated wastewater to farmers every growing season, is 95 percent complete and should be ready for use in late November/December. (Register-Parajonian)

Micah Pascua gets help from mom Tara as he pours unsweetened Kool Aid in one of two containers during an experiment with hydrogels at the 4-H 2008 National Youth Science Day event yesterday at ‘Ele‘ele School. DENNIS FUJIMOTO/Garden Island  
Garden Island  

'Don't eat the peas'

Junior scientists explore hydrogels at 4-H Science Day

The water lasted longer than students’ attention spans at ‘Ele‘ele School. Participating in the first 4-H 2008 National Youth Science Day, about a dozen students came out for the event centering around hydrogels. (Garden Island)
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