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1 day ago

Volunteers plant Bay Area's first living levee' using treated wastewater

A horizontal living levee in Palo Alto uses treated wastewater to irrigate native plants, creating a nature-based buffer against storm surge and sea-level rise.
fromThe Mercury News
1 day ago

Volunteers plant Bay Area's first 'living levee' using treated wastewater

Volunteers were out bright and early Wednesday morning along the Harbor Marsh coastline in the Palo Alto Baylands, joining an effort to build a nature-based buffer designed to absorb storm surges and curb flooding amid climate change and sea-level rise that threaten shoreline communities. They were helping build what project developers described as the Bay Area's first horizontal "living levee" directly connected to the Bay and irrigated with treated wastewater.
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