A Santa Clara County hillside polluted for decades by a controversial cement plant and quarry is on the path to restoration.

Heidelberg Materials, which owns the Lehigh Permanente Quarry and Cement Plant, detailed its restoration plans for a roughly 1.7-mile stretch of Permanente Creek at an annual community meeting Thursday. Company representatives also gave updates on the reclamation plan for the 3,510-acre site. The creek restoration project will clear the waterway of thousands of tons of debris and contaminated sediment over the next five years, caused by decades of pollution from the cement plant and quarry in Santa Clara County’s foothills near Cupertino.

The work is expected to cost millions of dollars as the company returns the creek to its natural state that once harbored fish a

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