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The Berkeley Pit in May 1984. Note the much higher water level in the more recent fisheye view, below. Composite Fisheye View of the Berkeley Pit, April 2005. The underground Berkeley Mine was located on a prominent vein extending to the southeast from the main Anaconda vein system (sometimes called "the richest hill on earth" [7]).
César Chávez Park is a 90 acres (36 ha) city park of Berkeley, California named after César Chávez. [1] It can be found on the peninsula on the north side of the Berkeley Marina in the San Francisco Bay and is adjacent to Eastshore State Park .
California bay and Madrone are found commonly among the redwoods. Local fauna include Black-tailed deer, Coyotes, Raccoons along with a wide variety of songbirds and birds of prey. The redwood forest provides a refuge for animals from harsh Mediterranean summer conditions in the Berkeley Hills by providing shade, cooler temperatures and water. [4]
Montana Resources, owned by the Washington Group, as of 2007, operates an open pit copper and molybdenum mine in Butte, and also recovers copper from the water in the Berkeley Pit. In 1980 the Berkeley Pit, the Clark Fork River and the smelter outside the town of Anaconda, MT were declared federal Superfund sites by the US EPA.
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The first public school in Berkeley was the Ocean View School, now the site of the Berkeley Adult School located at Virginia Street and San Pablo Avenue. The public schools today are administered by the Berkeley Unified School District. In the 1960s, Berkeley was one of the earliest US cities to voluntarily desegregate, utilizing a system of ...
The Berkeley Pier is in Berkeley, California. When constructed in 1926, the pier extended 3.5 miles (5.6 km) [ 1 ] into San Francisco Bay from the end of University Avenue . Due to extensive filling of the bay and the creation of the Berkeley Marina , it presently extends only 2.5 miles (4.0 km).
The Beaux-Arts-style Classical Revival building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places and is designated as part of California Historical Landmark #946. [4] It was designed by John Galen Howard, with the assistance of architect and Berkeley alumna Julia Morgan and the Dean of the College of Mines at that time, Samuel B. Christy ...