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> While the salt ponds and their beautiful showing may not be there forever, the project is on a 30-year plan, so there’s still some time to enjoy this fading g
by welder 9y ago
> While the salt ponds and their beautiful showing may not be there forever, the project is on a 30-year plan, so there’s still some time to enjoy this fading ghost of San Francisco’s industrial history.
Does this mean the smell will go away in 30 years from now?
- nullc 9y agoWetlands don't smell great either.
- Animats 9y ago"Pristine tidal wetland" means "mud flat".
- bdamm 9y agoYeah, I figure the smell is the exposed contaminants of the Bay itself. Everywhere on the Bay where you have mud banks they smell terrible at low tide.
- nightfly 9y agoMud doesn't have to be contaminated to smell bad, it just kinda does naturally.
- nostrademons 9y agoMost of this is decomposing plant material that naturally collects near shorelines. Wetlands, marshes, and swamps regularly smell bad, even in completely pristine undeveloped landscapes.