Tour the Caltrans wetlands restoration in Montara Tuesday

Caltrans is taking the Half Moon Bay City Council, planning commissioners, staff, and interested citizens on a tour of its wetlands mitigation project in Montara on Tuesday, May 2.  Caltrans’s karma (OK, the law) demands that it provide new wetlands in exchange for wetlands taken by building the Devil’s Slide Tunnel.  It’s restoring and creating five acres of wetlands in Montara, across Highway 1 from the old Charthouse. This includes removing soil, adding native plants, removing non-natives, and creating seasonal ponds.  The tour group is meeting at 5:00pm at "the parking area on the ocean side of the chain link fence across the highway and the northern end of Montara", and will carpool from there.