Where hundreds of scow schooner boats were once built in San Francisco now sits a future waterfront park. The 19th-century port in the Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood has changed over time from boat yard to Superfund site to neglected rock shore. Soon it will be a restored tidal marsh and open public space.

On Monday, the California Coastal Conservancy approved a $5.1 million grant to the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department to construct the third element of the India Basin Waterfront Park. It will fund the above-ground construction that will replace the old port property at 900 Innes Ave., and it will provide 2.4 acres of new access to the shoreline.

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Ruth Dusseault is an investigative reporter and multimedia journalist focused on environment and energy. Her position is supported by the California local news fellowship, a statewide initiative spearheaded by UC Berkeley aimed at supporting local news platforms. While a student at UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism (c’23), Ruth developed stories about the social and environmental circumstances of contaminated watersheds around the Great Lakes, Mississippi River and Florida’s Lake Okeechobee. Her thesis explored rights of nature laws in small rural communities. She is a former assistant professor and artist in residence at Georgia Tech’s School of Architecture, and uses photography, film and digital storytelling to report on the engineered systems that undergird modern life.