{{Short description|Body of water in California, U.S.}} thumb|Dawn at the slough '''Charleston Slough''' is a former Leslie salt pond that is now reverting to marsh<ref>{{cite book|last1=Sexton|first1=Jean Deitz|title=Silicon Valley: inventing the future : a contemporary portrait|url=https://archive.org/details/siliconvalleyinv0000sext|url-access=registration|date=1992|publisher=Windsor Publications|isbn=978-0897813891|page=[https://archive.org/details/siliconvalleyinv0000sext/page/250 250]}}<!--|accessdate=14 July 2014--></ref> on the western shore of San Francisco Bay.
==Environmental damage and recovery== In 1975 Leslie Salt owned the slough and used it for its salt water evaporation operations. The company shrunk the channel and drastically restricted the tides within the slough.<ref name=mcc>{{cite news|last1=McCabe|first1=Michael|title=A Tide of Change at Charleston Slough|url=http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/A-TIDE-OF-CHANGE-AT-CHARLESTON-SLOUGH-2966531.php|accessdate=28 July 2014|publisher=San Francisco Chronicle|date=September 13, 1996}}</ref>
In 1996, the City of Mountain View embarked on an ambitious project to reverse the damage cause by Leslie, and returned the slough to a much more environmentally-friendly salt marsh.<ref name=mcc/> {{coord|37.4418837|-122.0924628|region:US-CA_type:waterbody_scale:40000_source:GNIS|format=dms|notes=<ref name="gnis">{{cite gnis|id=220922|name=Charleston Slough|accessdate=30 December 2016|entrydate=19 January 1981}}</ref>|display=t}} ==References== {{reflist}}
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