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PRESS-DEMOCRAT (Santa Rosa, California) 18 November 09 Santa Rosa street closed until January (Bleys W. Rose)
Fresno Avenue between Northpoint Parkway and Maitland Avenue in Santa Rosa is closed through early January to accommodate wood ramps that will funnel tiger salamanders — if there are any — off a future park site and toward vernal pools across the street.
The project is part of Santa Rosa’s effort to develop Airfield Neighborhood Park in a southwest area residential subdivision where neighbors have been awaiting a playground for years.
Fresno Avenue will be closed and local traffic will face a two-block detour until completion of the project, scheduled for early January, public works department officials said.
City crews began erecting ramps and fencing on Wednesday.
If things go according to plan, the endangered amphibians would leave their burrows during heavy rain and migrate to the moisture of vernal pools. A silt barrier surrounds the park and is designed to force tiger salamanders onto the ramps crossing Fresno Avenue.
The city has created a Web page for information at srcity.org/airfieldpark.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091118/ARTICLES/911189925/0/ENTERTAINMENT09
Fresno Avenue between Northpoint Parkway and Maitland Avenue in Santa Rosa is closed through early January to accommodate wood ramps that will funnel tiger salamanders — if there are any — off a future park site and toward vernal pools across the street.
The project is part of Santa Rosa’s effort to develop Airfield Neighborhood Park in a southwest area residential subdivision where neighbors have been awaiting a playground for years.
Fresno Avenue will be closed and local traffic will face a two-block detour until completion of the project, scheduled for early January, public works department officials said.
City crews began erecting ramps and fencing on Wednesday.
If things go according to plan, the endangered amphibians would leave their burrows during heavy rain and migrate to the moisture of vernal pools. A silt barrier surrounds the park and is designed to force tiger salamanders onto the ramps crossing Fresno Avenue.
The city has created a Web page for information at srcity.org/airfieldpark.
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20091118/ARTICLES/911189925/0/ENTERTAINMENT09