Corrections and Game Day!

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This is part one of a three post series since there were three adventures back to back: 1.) Game Day 2.) Pretty Sloughs on Game Day 3.)The Day after Game Day.

First, it appears that I was mistaken with regards to what the purpose of those nets were. I happened upon a nice gentlemen from Valley Water who explained what was going on and posted some signs to that effect. There are some flood control pipes exiting the hillside of the creek, and the hill has eroded behind the concrete sack bank. This is a two week project to reinforce that portion of the hillside.

 The nets here are for keeping the fish out of the construction area because they are going to pump the area dry and put some temporary gates in to block the water flow. The nets have nothing to with debris - they make much more sense as fish nets.

Here is the posting of the construction activities just north of Agnew.

In either case, I still don't know who cleared up all the debris from under the bridge. The man from Valley Water didn't know either but didn't deny the possibility it could have been his crew. If anyone knows, please let me know. I would like to thank them.

Without further ado, here is game day, with kick-off set for 1:25pm.

Toyota Gate F on Tasman - the local street traffic was pretty good. Also, the staff, officers, and fans were all low key and in good spirits. It was a very well run operation.

This is looking at the same Toyota Gate F from a different perspective, looking east.

 Intel Gate A, same location as my suggestion from last post for an update to their advertisement. The foot traffic was pretty slow and steady.

 Here's looking south at the San Tomas Aquino Creek in the middle.

 Getting an idea of any potential source of litter - it appears that modern stadium security has a benefit of reducing the total quantity of stuff people bring in to the stadium to either a small clear tote or nothing at all. Most people had nothing except an extra layer for warmth.

 The Great America parking lot on game day.

 The municipal golf course course is a current source of quite a bit of fairground style parking, also the future home of Joe Montana's Santana Row-like super-village.

The north side of the creek continues to be pretty clean.

I also thanked the two people who I came across picking up litter - I was eager to check out the main parking lot, but I stayed out of the way of the major foot traffic zones.

All in all, I was quite impressed with the event. And the 49ers won, which made for happy fans coming back through the neighborhood after the game.