Local news outlets are reporting that for the past 10 years, some Caltrans employees have been taking a shortcut with roadkill. The official policy is that wildlife are to be taken to rendering plants and domestic animals to shelters so the owner can be notified. The shortcut? A hillside above the tony town of Saratoga. What could potentially make this worse it that is that many of the carcasses had fallen into Saratoga Creek, which runs by at least three parks - a small open space, Wildwood and Congress Springs - and behind numerous houses. Even worse? Saratoga Creek feeds into a water system that serves 1 million people in San Jose, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Monte Sereno and Campbell.
Caltrans says that it had been unaware of this practice and that as far as it knows only one employee has been doing this. The highway agency is investigating as is the water company.
source: mercury news
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