Livermore Quarry
Map SatelliteWithin the area of this large and active quarry are a number of freshwater ponds in abandoned quarry pits. During the breeding season there is a particularly heavy concentration of the tiger salamander, Ambystoma tigrinum, which live elsewhere but come to these ponds to breed.
Integrity: The ponds have been created by quarrying.
Use: Private
March 1980
Inventory of California Natural Areas
Revision © 2009 Steven Louis Hartman