Dredged sediment rebuilt a shorebird lagoon and beach park in West Oakland

Evidence

When the Port of Oakland took ownership of the land in 2002, it used sediment to re-create a lagoon and a beach in the hopes of supporting the local shorebird population. It also built an observation tower named after Chappell R. Hayes, an Oakland community activist and environmentalist who ran programs for at-risk youth, helped move a freeway farther away from West Oakland, rallied against the transport of spent nuclear fuel rods through the nearby port, and raised awareness of environmental racism in the boards and committees he served on. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 676

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Builders filled wetlands partly because dredged bay-bottom made cheap fill — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 661; A restored artificial beach can host diverse shorebirds beside an active port
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Builders filled wetlands partly because dredged bay-bottom made cheap fill — Adam Rome, The Bulldozer in the Countryside:…, 661; A restored artificial beach can host diverse shorebirds beside an active port