Cargill Salt Ponds. This is where we pump bay water into our pond. Owned by Cargill and its affiliates since 1978 the salt ponds are one of the last remaining undeveloped areas along the Bay shoreline.
A joint statement posted in full below was released Tuesday in the wake of apparent renewed interest by Cargill and developer DMB Pacific Ventures to develop the salt ponds. Santiago Mejia The Chronicle John Muir came to San Francisco in l868. 101an area stretching from Woodside Road to Marsh Road.
Most if not all salt evaporation ponds are owned by Cargill.
Pink water and salt pyramids create a surreal landscape at the Cargill Salt Ponds. Cargill should finally abandon their misguided development plans and donate the salt ponds to the Don Edwards Wildlife Refuge as they have already done with nearly every other former salt pond in the South Bay. Santiago Mejia The Chronicle John Muir came to San Francisco in l868. Cargill did just that in 2003 when it sold 16500 acres of its salt ponds in the South Bay to the public for 100 million setting up one of the largest wetlands restoration efforts ever attempted.
