Virtual Tour

The Salt Stacks

From here, the salt is poured off our gantry - a huge conveyor belt on a distinctive, triangular frame - onto our salt stacks. When the fresh salt is first placed on the stack, it is 99.5 percent pure. For a few days, the fresh salt retains the pinkish color of the "pickle" from which it evaporated. Within a week or two, however, it turns a dazzling white.

Our stacks are the brightest objects on the Bay shoreline, visible from Alviso to Redwood City. Because of their startling purity, our salt stacks are familiar landmarks, serving as a navigational aid to commercial and private pilots.

The salt stack is our unprocessed inventory. Although it sits outdoors, surprisingly little stack salt melts during the rainy season. That which sloughs off during a hard rain is recaptured by the plant’s internal brine system so that not a speck of salt is lost or discharged.

Salt from the stack is transported by conveyor belt to our refinery, where it is further processed for food or industrial use.

irtual Tour

Salt Ponds
The Mallard II
Evaporation Ponds
Crystallizers
Harvest
Wash House
Salt Stacks
Industrial Use Refining
Home Use Refining
Packaging