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News Briefs
Calling all green thumbs
If it's always been your dream to be a Master Composter volunteer, now's your big chance.
The county Home Composting Education Program is looking for volunteers who want to train to work in the program, which does public outreach programs for adults and children on backyard composting and worm composting.
The class is limited to 35 people. Deadline to apply is August 11. For more information, call the county "rotline" at 299-4147.
City Council gets new creek report
The Saratoga City Council heard a report on the status of Saratoga Creek on July 7, and the news was relatively good--pollution appears to be down in an area that was recently tested.
The council also approved three designs to be placed on signs that warn of the dangers Saratoga Creek may pose.
The report and signs are part of a settlement reached three months ago in the case between the city and Friends of the Santa Clara Creek and San Francisco BayKeeper, two area environmental organizations. In the case, the two plaintiffs alleged that the city should be held responsible for taking measures to stop heightened levels of fecal coliform bacteria that had been detected in the creek.
The new signs approved by the council last week carry strong images and will be planted in concrete at 13 locations along the creek, including four at Wildwood Park and others at various entrances to the trail that runs along the creek bank.
One of the signs, a "no-wading" logo, depicts a person reaching into knee-deep water for a dead fish, signified by fish bones and representing the polluted water.
Another design, one that didn't make, it bore the likeness of a little girl playing near a storm drainpipe. The image wasn't approved, but the wording under it was. It read, "Warning! Polluted water may flow from this outfall pipe. Stay away."
Also accepted as part of the council's report is a memo outlining the most recent testing done on the creek at the end of June. The report states that testing shows very low levels of bacteria found at a Saratoga-Sunnyvale Road test point, and calls it "a highly encouraging indication that the problems in the other lines may be tractable."
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Saratoga, California Since 1975
