Los Vaqueros Reservoir location:
http://www.ccwater.com/losvaqueros/gettingtolv.asp
Mark Wagner wrote:
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> Here is an interesting request that came in to the webmaster e-mail address this morning. If
> there is some interest in this, you may want to discuss it on-list. I have suggested Gina watch
> our list for replies. This may be an opportunity to develop a new observing site, but at minimum
> provide some outreach to introduce more people to observing.
>
> Mark
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>
> ---------------------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------------------
> Subject: Public Activities
> From:
> Date: Mon, March 17, 2008 8:59 am
> To: webmaster@No-Spam
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>
> I am a Public Information Officer with the Contra Costa Water District,
> and one of my on-going assignments is to organize events at the Los
> Vaqueros reservoir, which is located halfway between Brentwood and
> Livermore.
>
> We have had one "astronomy night" for the public at the reservoir. It
> attracted about 50 people, mainly inexperienced and curious Brentwood
> residents. The program was conducted by an organization called Mt.
> Diablo Astronomical Society, which is a great group. The members really
> liked the location because it is secluded and we can turn off all of the
> lights. They brought about 10 telescopes of different sorts and like
> people look through them, then explained what they were seeing.
>
> We would like to have more events this summer, and we do have one
> scheduled for August 9, but MDAS is a very busy organization and can't
> be available to us as frequently as we'd like. We would like to have 1
> or 2 more Astronomy Nights this summer.
>
> Would your group be interested in conducting a couple of nighttime
> programs out there? We can pay a fee to the organization, maybe $150 or
> something like that. We would not be able to be out there all night,
> but I could get permission to have people out there late.
>
> Please let me know what you think?
>
> Gina Oltman
> Public Information Specialist
> Contra Costa Water District
>
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Received on Mon Mar 17 10:30:16 2008