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Neighbors Protecting Neighbors
Waterfront Watch is a quality of life neighborhood organization created by residents of Hercules. The blog is edited by Jeffrey Wisniewski. Posts are mostly written by the editor, but posts do include those written by contributors and guest authors. A working masthead is available.

Website ↩
The blog is proudly powered by WordPress, the state-of-the-art, semantic publishing platform, and uses a customized theme based on Headless by Ozan Onay. The masthead image is a photograph by Milka Photography. Photos and some images are collected at Flickr, and videos are collected at YouTube.

The site is built, in earnest, with respect to web standards using Firefox on both Apple and Windows, but is not checked for strict compatibility with non-standards compliant Internet Explorer (IE). If you are having issues viewing the site using IE, upgrade your version, and please consider downloading Firefox — if you are indeed brave and willing — for a better web browsing experience.

Contact ↩
Feel free to contact and connect with the people of Waterfront Watch by sending an email. All email is considered confidential and/or anonymous, unless otherwise stated or agreed upon between both parties, however, information provided may be used as background material without attribution in subsequent posts.

Non-Affiliation ↩
This site is unaffiliated with the City of Hercules and any of its commissions, agencies, or third-party agents. This site is unaffiliated with any developer, corporation or consulting firm doing business in the City of Hercules. This site is unaffiliated with the West Contra Costa and John Swett Unified School Districts, any teacher organization or union, and any parent or student organization. This site is unaffiliated with any other neighborhood organization or association.

Reader Comments ↩
Reader comments are accepted on all posts. Comments are never censored based on political or ideological point of view. Comments may be moderated if the content is deemed to be vitriolic in nature or off-topic, use excessive foul language, or include ad hominem attacks. The purpose of the blog is to encourage debate and discussion on varying issues throughout Hercules (and beyond), and commenters are expected to further the discussion.

Reader Submissions ↩
Readers who submit content (text, photos, videos, etc.), and do not restrict the use, provide the site rights to publish the material in a manner that is consistent with uses inherent to the material provided. Readers who wish that material they submit to not be published should mention as such in their submission. Readers who wish their material that has been published be removed should contact us.

Fair Use ↩
From time to time, full articles from news agencies will be published on this site in order to inform the residents of Hercules, and to archive the material. It should be noted that in every case possible, a direct link to the original content is included. This use meets the conditions outlined by the San Francisco Chronicle and the criteria of Fair Use by the Copyright Clearance Center. If any publisher wishes that material posted on this site be removed based on copyright protection, he/she should contact us.

Public Domain ↩
Videos of perceived interest to the community are posted to YouTube. A large portion of the videos include footage from City Council and Planning Commission meetings, which are considered to be in the public domain, and therefore free to upload and share. It should be noted that minimal editing is conducted in order to preserve the context and content of the material. If an individual believes that any video is not in the public domain, and should not be used in the manner as published, he/she should contact us.

Advertisements ↩
Google Ads are run on this site strictly in order to recoup the costs associated with the operation of the site (domain registration, hosting, etc.). This site should be considered to be not-for-profit, however it currently is not licensed as such. The nature or content of the ads should not construe, in anyway whatsoever, an endorsement of the product(s) or message(s) delivered in the ads.

Any person or organization interested in placing custom ads on this site should contact us.