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Heritage Blue Oak
Blue Oak trees, along with live oaks and foothill pines appear
throughout the Easton project area, most notably in the northern
and eastern portions of the property.
The oak woodlands will be an integral part of the open space
assets along with greenways and parks interspersed throughout
the development making land that has been inaccessible for the
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Dredge Tailings
In the beginning of the Gold Rush, the miners were limited to
areas accessible to hand tools- such as gold pans and rockers-
along the banks of streams and rivers. Realizing that more gold
lay in the deeper gravels in the riverbeds they built crude
steam powered dredges in the early 1900's. (Dredge -A boat or
barge equipped with a dredging machine used to remove sand or
mud, especially from the bottom of rivers.)
These dredge tailings are the remains of the dredging activity.
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Dredge Tailings Up Close
With buckets that gouged out several cubic yards of gravel on
each pass, enormous amounts of material could be processed by
one dredge. The buckets scooped up gravel and dumped it into
sluice boxes inside the dredge, where water was pumped in to
separate the gold from the gravel. The worthless gravel was then
dumped out the back to form tailings sometimes as high as 50
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Alder Creek
Alder Creek is a perennial nine-acre creek that flows east to
west through the northern part of the project adjacent to
Highway 50. It is heavily shaded by tree canopy and is home to
Fremont cottonwoods, willows, white alder, and a rich variety of
trees and brush. Dredged prior to the early 50's, the creek has
been disturbed, re-routed, and left spotted with man-made
drainage ditches. GenCorp hopes to restore the natural splendor
of the creek and preserve it in perpetuity within an open space
corridor.
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Old Go-cart Dirby Track from
Aerojet's Heyday
Aerojet was once home to nearly 23,000 employees complete with
their own bus line, fire and police departments, waste disposal
facility, medical center, cafeteria, planning commission, and go
cart facility. |
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Historical photos of Aerojet history - provided by GenCorp
Realty, Inc.
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