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RESOLUTION NO. 5187
RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
SUPPORTING MARSH RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION IN
THE BA'lLANDS
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto and the u. s. Army Corps of
Engineers have agreed on the controlled introduction of tidal
waters into the Palo Alto Flood Basin as an acceptable mitigation
project in consideration for the Corps of Engineers granting the
City a permit to dispose of solid wastes at a sanitary landfill
siter and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto has appropriated $110,000
to restore controlled tidal action to the lagoon; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto has ex~ended $40,000 to con•
duct a mathematical feasibility study on the Flood Basin; and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto has appropriated $75,000 to
restore marsh environments and preserve habitat diversity in the
Flood Basin; and
WHEREAS, the City of· Palo Alto's Department of Nature and
Science is cooperating with Stanford University to develop, and
disseminate the results of,·research on the physical and bio-
logical aspects of salt marshes1 and
WHEREAS, the City of Palo Alto is developing marshland
management plans in ah urban area:
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does
RESOLVE' as follows:
SECTION 1. The Council recognizes th& importance of its
marshlands and resolves that they be preserved for present and
future benefits.
SECTION 2. 'l'he Council r·eco9'nizes the importance of dis-
eeminatinq reaeareh knowledqe in order to improve environmental
quality.
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SECTION J. The Council supports the concept of productive
marshland research and supports the study proposed by Stanford
University.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED: January 12, 1976
AYES: Beahrs, Berwald, Car~y. Clay, Comstock, Eyerly, Norton, Sher, Witherspoon
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN ING: None
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