Coyote Hills Transformation

The houses are coming!! The houses are coming!!

Unfortunately for any nature loving person, the construction of 500 houses next to Coyote Hills has begun. A few weeks ago the Patterson Family finally got to sell the last of old Patterson Ranch to developers,  and for the last few weeks, double loaders have been making trips back and forth between “phase 1” and the old quarry next to the Dumbarton Bridge.

But get this. The ground study indicated that that top two feet of soil in the new housing development is “TOXIC”. The soil contains decades of toxic who-knows-what that was used when the land was an actual working farm. So part of the “deal” was that they would remove the top two feet of soil and dump it in the old quarry,  a hundreds feet deep pit that sits next to the toll plaza at Dumbarton Bridge.

But get this!! The pit where they are dumping the toxic soil will someday be a park!  The city of Fremont is letting developer fill the pit with toxic soil that someday your kids and grand-kids will be playing at and swimming in. Luckily for us the toxic stuff will settle to the bottom.  At least thats what they say. Good luck with that!

On our saturday ride we went to the top of skunk hill to see it for ourselves. Truck after truck pulls up to the pit and dumps the toxic soil. Oh, and since it was another windy day in Fremont, that toxic dirt and dust was blowing right into Fremont!!!!

While up there I took a 360 video view. Check it out by clicking here.

We also noticed a little make-shift memorial just off  the single track up on skunk hill. Just a couple of pictures and a can of Arizona Ice Tea, along with some nicely placed rocks to keep everything together. We paid our respects and carried on.