someone in passing said, oh, have you ever been to tepco beach?id no, so we came here we're at of tepco beach, which is right near point isabel regional shoreline, and i'm dave weinstein, president of the el cerrito historical society, tepco beach, as we call it now has shards of beautiful old porcelain and pottery that were made by the technical porcelain and chinaware company turned out thousands of pieces of plates, cups, saucers, all kinds of dinnerware. it was dinnerware, actually, which is very thick. they operated at their peak, producing about 30,000 plates a day. >> hotels, places in reno, san francisco, many of the local places. they all got special tepco ware. santa fe land wanted to build a giant industrial place out here, so they encouraged all kinds of people to come and dump whatever they could to make land. look, for example, these giant pieces of former sidewalk. so for many years, tepco would come out here and they wouldn't just drive to the end and dump it here on the beach. if you walk through out, point this part of point isab