Water tower falls as demolition begins on former naval intelligence base.
The demolition of approximately 150 buildings began Wednesday on Skaggs Island, which served as an intelligence-gathering site and communications base for the US Navy for more than half a century.
The 1,339 hectare (3,310-acre site), located 25 miles northeast of San Francisco in Sonoma County, will be transferred from the Navy to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service when demolition is complete and will eventually become part of the San Pablo Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
The Navy demolished a 12-story, 38 metre (125-foot) steel water tower on property it occupied from 1941 to 1993.
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