Work is moving forward on a project to restore native habitat and implement a series of water quality treatment projects to redesign the path of stormwater to Middle Struve Slough. … Much of the run-off from the roadways, neighborhoods, commercial and industrial areas in Watsonville flows untreated to the Watsonville wetlands and out to the Monterey Bay … As a result, the City’s sloughs, once drained for farming, and now surrounded by development has impaired water quality, affecting birds, wildlife, and trail and beach users. … When completed, the Middle Struve Slough Habitat and Water Quality Improvement Project … will include treatment wetlands and sediment catchment basins that intercept stormwater before it flows to the wetlands, a series of ponds designed to improve habitat for birds, western pond turtles, and other wetland wildlife, and restored native plants throughout the area.