This is a permit-only access site. This once-fine site previously processed agricultural wastewater in small setting ponds, providing excellent shorebird habitat during spring and fall migration. The location is no longer managed as wastewater ponds, and all the small settling ponds are now typically dry. The site is now heavily used for solar panels, along with three large ponds without shorebird habitat. 

Now mostly ducks and dry-country species (larks, pipits in season, sparrows). 

Historically, this was a mecca for shorebirds during spring and fall migration, and good for ducks and geese in winter. It was open to the public from its "discovery" ~1982 until the Loma Prieta earthquake in October 1989. At that time roads, berms, and infrastructure crumbled. Thereafter the City of Salinas required waivers of liability and individual permits. Starting about 2000, reconstruction hindered access and rules were tightened. By ~2015, the site was transitioned from wastewater treatment to solar panels, and water was retained only in three large ponds, often too-full for any waders. Access become physically more difficult and the few permits recently have been for local observers only. The City management has sometimes advised that it will be entirely closed with new uses in the future.

This historic Hot Spot has compiled an excellent list of rarities from the 20th century, but despite continued local coverage, rarities have steeply dropped because of habitat changes. The site has always been inaccessible when access roads became muddy from winter rains, or from agricultural watering of crops. The entire site is surrounded by barbed wire and locked gates.