Palo Alto plans pilot residential composting programs to reduce landfill waste
Residents of single-family homes in Palo Alto will soon be able to compost food scraps in a bid to divert thousands of tons of waste from the landfill.
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San Mateo to improve levees and lower residents’ flood insurance rates (VIDEO)
The San Mateo South Bayfront Levee Improvements Project is designed to reduce flood risk for 8,000 local properties. The city’s public works department is working with FEMA to lower insurance rates in the area.
San Mateo levee project may pull funding from parking expansion
San Mateo’s public works department has proposed taking $1.4 million budgeted for a downtown parking garage and using the money to bolster flood prevention in neighborhoods south of San Mateo Creek.