We’re celebrating our second year partnering with Audi on their Restore our Bays initiative to support and promote coastal restoration across the nation.
In addition to our overall habitat restoration and environmental education program, Audi’s grant supports our exciting new project, the Palo Alto Horizontal Levee Project.
The levee will be covered with native plants and irrigated with treated wastewater from the adjacent Regional Water Quality Control Plant. This will be the first project of its kind in which the treated wastewater is released into the Bay after being filtered.
Wetland habitats can take up nutrients, pharmaceutical chemicals, and heavy metals from treated wastewater on an irrigated slope, further cleaning it before it flows into the Bay.
Audi joined us at the Palo Alto Baylands to put over 400 native plants in the ground. This will provide shelter and food for wildlife and protect the East Palo Alto community from flooding due to sea level rise.
We’re grateful for Audi’s commitment to conservation and restoration throughout the US and we look forward to continuing to work with them to build a resilient Bay for people and wildlife.
