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2018 Kite Fest
Short clips from the 2018 Kite Festival at Berkeley's Cesar Chavez Park, organized by Highline Kites of Berkeley.
Music background track by Bensound.com.
Date: Saturday July 28 2018.
Amateur Radio Field Day 2018
Berkeley's Cesar Chavez Park hosts amateur radio clubs the weekend of June 23-24 for Field Day, a test of emergency radio equipment and skills, and a contest to see how many other Field Day participants can be contacted within 24 hours.
Berkeley seawall gap
This gap in the seawall floods a busy hike and bike path at every high tide. It's been there since at least 2012, and the City still hasn't fixed it. How's it going to deal with sea level rise if it can't even deal with sea levels today?
BFD Training 20200203
Berkeley Fire Department holds training exercise in Cesar Chavez Park, Berkeley, California
Big tent move x4 20210127
Berkeley Marine Center, next door to Chavez Park, moves one of its "Big Top" boat shelters. Video speeded 4x.
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BUTCH 20201110
Contractors hired by City Parks Department butcher native plants to convert single-track trail into truck road bisecting Native Plant Communities.
Coast Guard Helicopter Hauled Away
Electrical problems forced the flight crew to land this Coast Guard helicopter in Cesar Chavez Park shortly after noon on Saturday May 20, 2017. By 7 pm a Coast Guard maintenance crew had dismounted the rotor blades and tail wings and prepared to winch the craft onto a trailer for the road trip back to its home base at SFO.
Crews cleaning up downed tree
City Parks & Waterfront crew cleaning up after big Monterey Cypress that fell in storm
Demolition of the Flare Station at Berkeley's Cesar Chavez Park (Day 2)
There isn't enough gas from the refuse to drive the big flare station built in 1989, so it's being replaced by a smaller model. Here's a half-hour set of video excerpts from seven hours of artful, careful, and above all safe demolition labor.
Fence 20200320
Workes install fence in Cesar Chavez Park Berkeley California
Fence 20200321
Progress on boundary fence in Cesar Chavez Park Berkeley California
Fence 20200323
Boundary fence completed at Cesar Chavez Park Berkeley California
Fence Repair 20190926
The fence that the rip=rap rehab contractors put up in July needed some work, so Phil R. and I took care of that on Thursday morning.
Flare station demolition Day 1
This flare station at Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley was built in 1989. Its purpose is to burn off the landfill gases that the refuse buried under the park surface generates. A new flare station has been built and is operational next to the old.
Flare station demolition Day 2 Time Lapse Only
Seven hours of work in two and a half minutes. Shot with a Panasonic Lumix DMC ZS60. For safety reasons the crew made me move the tripod way, way back about halfway through.
Flare Station Working
The new million-dollar flare station at Berkeley's Cesar Chavez Park in operation. A burner at the base of the stack converts methane and other landfill gases into carbon dioxide and byproducts. The hot exhaust can't be seen directly but the sun passing through the gases makes the flow visible as a shadow on the ground.
Kaplow 20210710
Dave Kaplow, former president of Design Associates Working with Nature (DAWN), speaking at forum of Chavez Park Conservancy, July 10 2021 in Berkeley California. Excerpts from 90-minute presentation and QA session.
Men at Work: Repairing the Leak in the Irrigation Main
A leak in an 8-inch PVC irrigation pipe has gone unrepaired since May 2017. Now two members of the Berkeley Parks and Waterfront Department are at work exposing the pipe and preparing a pressure test to locate the leak.
MOW 20190319
Berkeley Parks staff mowing and trimming parts of the 90-acre park
Picking Up
The forested grove on the west side of the park is a place where Parks maintenance rarely goes, so when a mess accumulates, it's up to park visitors to lend a hand. This is part of being a Chavez Park Conservancy member.
Pothole work 20190607
Public Works crew patches potholes on Spinnaker Way
Raising money for education
This young girl and her mom set up a water booth in the park to raise a bit of money for the girl's education.
Restore Peace Symbol 20190527s
Six volunteers rescue Peace Symbol in Cesar Chavez Park from the weeds
Rip Rap Rehab 20190529
Beginning of the rip-rap repair job on the southeast border of Cesar Chavez Park
Rip Rap Rehab 20190530
Second day of rip-rap repair project at Cesar Chavez Park
Rip Rap Rehab 20190603
Second week of rip-rap repair project
Rip Rap Rehab 20190605
Rip-rap rehab project continues
Spinnaker Way Pothole Patchers
City of Berkeley Public Works Department workers patch potholes and cracks along Spinnaker Way, the busy access road to Cesar Chavez Park
The Peace Keepers
Friends from different places come together to care for the peace symbol in Cesar Chavez Park by removing weeds
VID 20190406 123515
Chavezpark.org had a booth at the Berkeley Bay Festival for the second year in a row. Here''s a clip of a young festival visitor matching animal names to their pictures. All names and pictures are creatures seen in Cesar Chavez Park
Work to replace rusted bench
City of Berkeley Parks department maintenance staff member working to replace rusted out bench on northwest corner of Cesar Chavez Park