"4" Vinca Minor Traditional Cache
Team Tootsie Roll: This cache is missing - either buried by nature's decomposition of things, or taken away. We will place a new cache nearby ASAP.
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Web page link is for the regional park - BUT reach this cache from San Leandro’s Lake Chabot city park (no entrance fee required). Parking coordinates are: 37/43.886 N, 122/07.862 W. To find this cache, stay on the paved trail until you have zoomed in on the cache coordinates; this is as close to the cache as GPS units will pick up satellite signals (thus the difficulty rating). Some scrambling for this one - but not near any drop-offs! Poison oak can be avoided.
Anthony Chabot was an engineer/entrepreneur who decided there was money to be made by selling water. Chabot bought land in the East Bay Hills and built an earthen dam using Chinese laborers and horses. Later he added a sand filtering system to improve water quality. Some interesting aspects of Anthony Chabot’s legacy remains.
While finding this cache, look around the park to enjoy the wide variety of plants and trees. Many were imported by Anthony Chabot. His home once overlooked the lake. Palm trees in the East Bay Hills? You bet! You will also pass a very unusual tree (at trail marker #10). Can you tell what it is? (N PREX GEREE) If you play Disc Golf, allow time to play here.
The East Bay Municipal Utility District now owns the dam and the surrounding watershed. The dam has been upgraded to modern standards, but Lake Chabot is no longer used for drinking water, though the sand filters remain as a civil engineering landmark. Rather, Lake Chabot helps protect the drinking water held at Upper San Leandro reservoir by providing a place for water to spill if Upper San Leandro reservoir gets too full.
While Anthony Chabot’s water system relied entirely on rain running off into his reservoir, the current water provider, East Bay Municipal Utility District, gets its water from the Sierras – really good water!
The cache started with a travel bug and a variety of East Bay Water tokens. We restocked the cache before re-activating it in its new location. New items include his and her bolos and a traveling geocaching hard ball from GCNXAE.
Additional Hints
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