Meeker Slough
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Meeker Slough is a slough in Richmond, California
formed by a creek of the same name and drains into the Richmond Inner Harbor, part of San Francisco Bay
. The area lies between modern tract housing in the Marina Bay
neighborhood and the University of California, Berkeley Richmond Field Station's portion of Western Stege Marsh, which has been cleaned of legacy industrial contamination and restored to a productive tidal salt marsh home to the endangered California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris oboletus). The slough is across from Stege Marsh
from which Baxter Creek
drains across from a small bay they both form known as Campus Bay. The site is currently undergoing wetlands restoration.
Richmond, California
Richmond is a city in western Contra Costa County, California, United States. The city was incorporated on August 7, 1905. It is located in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area. It is a residential inner suburb of San Francisco, as well as the site of heavy industry, which has been...
formed by a creek of the same name and drains into the Richmond Inner Harbor, part of San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay
San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining from approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean...
. The area lies between modern tract housing in the Marina Bay
Marina Bay, Richmond, California
Marina Bay is located in Richmond's protected Inner Harbor. It was developed in the mid 1980s in an effort to clean up what had been up to that point the defunct WWII-era Kaiser Shipyards. The has been planned as an upper-scale residential waterfront community with apartments, condominiums,...
neighborhood and the University of California, Berkeley Richmond Field Station's portion of Western Stege Marsh, which has been cleaned of legacy industrial contamination and restored to a productive tidal salt marsh home to the endangered California clapper rail (Rallus longirostris oboletus). The slough is across from Stege Marsh
Stege Marsh
Stege Marsh also known as the South Richmond Marshes is a polluted tidal marshland wetlands area in Richmond, California in western Contra Costa County.-Overview:...
from which Baxter Creek
Baxter Creek
Baxter Creek or Stege Creek , is a three-branch creek in Richmond and El Cerrito, California, United States forming the Baxter Creek watershed. The creek has three sources and flows from the Berkeley Hills to Stege Marsh and the San Francisco Bay...
drains across from a small bay they both form known as Campus Bay. The site is currently undergoing wetlands restoration.