The hard-luck steelhead trout of San Francisquito Creek will have one less obstacle to surmount once the storms of winter set the stage for their annual spawning runs. A construction team has removed a century-old concrete barrier from a section of the creek in El Palo Alto Park on the Palo Alto-Menlo Park border, restoring the streambed to a more natural course. The roughly 40-foot-wide structure, known as a weir, had acted at times as a dam, trapping the federally threatened fish on either side. LINK (via:The San Mateo County Times)