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| berkeley, california | |
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Strawberry Creek was the first water source for the University and parts of the city of Berkeley. A reservoir was constructed in the late 19th century in Strawberry Canyon, above the site of U.C.'s Memorial Stadium . The reservoir was replaced in the early 20th century by the system of the East Bay Municipal Utility District whose source reservoir is located in the Sierra Nevada . The creek has over the years been culverted in several places, but has remained open through most of the U.C. campus, except in the central glade where the two small middle forks were long ago filled in. Efforts to re-open the creek throughout its natural course through Berkeley continue to this date ( on the site of what used to be a small freight yard of the Santa Fe Railway . Strawberry Creek serves as a significant marker for the movement of the Hayward Fault . The creek is offset at the mouth of Strawberry Canyon, right where Memorial Stadium sits. The filled-in middle forks are thought to represent remnants of the former course of the south (main) fork of the creek, moved northward by fault action. In the latter half of the 19th century, a road bridge and a railroad trestle crossed Strawberry Creek in the Downtown section at what is now the intersection of Shattuck Avenue and Allston Way. At the mouth of Strawberry Creek where it enters San Francisco Bay, the local indigenous people built up a Shellmound . There was also a small wood of native willows here which was used in the late 19th century as a park. SEE ALSO REFERENCES
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