Bay Area’s first ‘living levee’ opens at Palo Alto Baylands

A cool breeze swept through Palo Alto’s Baylands Nature Preserve as local and federal representatives opened the Bay Area’s first nature-based horizontal levee — a project officials hope protects against rising sea levels and helps filter wastewater going into the bay, while boosting the native marshland ecosystem. Dozens of representatives from various agencies, from Palo... The post Bay Area’s first ‘living levee’ opens at Palo Alto Baylands appeared first on San José Spotlight.