Deputy Secretary Jerry Meral has announced his retirement from the California Natural Resources Agency at the end of the month in a letter addressed to Governor Brown. Jerry Meral has served as the deputy secretary for nearly three years,charged with the difficult task of guiding the efforts to complete of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan. […]
Continue ReadingThe United States Environmental Protection Agency has released a Request for Proposals for Projects to Improve Air Quality at Ports – a 2013 Diesel Emissions Reduction Act Funding Opportunity View the RFP in PDF: RFP – Port Air Quality Improvement Projects
Continue ReadingQuick Links Our Website Events Join Our Mailing List :: Townsend Report The current 2014 water bond, priced at $11.14 billion, has received much criticism due to the high cost and the amount of earmarks. Both the Senate and Assembly have produced revised versions of the bond language and both measures address the issue […]
Continue ReadingThe Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) and the Texas Water Conservation Association (TWCA) has submitted a joint letter to the House-Senate Conference Committee on WRDA. The final letter from these two state associations incorporated wording and suggestions from Bay Planning Coalition and its partners (See the BPC Joint Letter Here). Read the ACWA-TWCA […]
Continue ReadingA Winter Spare the Air Alert has been issued for Wednesday, December 11, in the Bay Area. Wood burning is banned both indoors and outdoors on Wednesday, for the full 24 hours. Air quality in the Bay Area is forecast to be unhealthy. It is illegal for Bay Area residents to burn wood […]
Continue ReadingA Winter Spare the Air Alert has been issued for Monday, December 9, in the Bay Area. Wood burning is banned both indoors and outdoors on Tuesday, for the full 24 hours. Air quality in the Bay Area is forecast to be unhealthy. It is illegal for Bay Area residents to burn wood […]
Continue ReadingAM Alert: Delta water tunnels environmental report released Whether the Bay Delta Conservation Plan is the solution to decades of conflict over California’s water supply is heavily debated. But after seven years in the making, the environmental impact report for the project — which proposes construction of two enormous tunnels to divert freshwater from the […]
Continue ReadingSan Francisco Bay is becoming clearer. Decades of tidal action have finally washed away most of the mess created 150 years ago by Gold Rush miners who blasted apart hillsides in the Sierra Nevada. The result was millions of tons of mud, gravel and sand that made its way downriver and ended up in the […]
Continue Reading“STOCKTON, Calif. — Port officials in Stockton have removed hundreds of thousands of pounds of an invasive plant that has clogged their waterway and other waterways and harbors in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The Record of Stockton reports (http://bit.ly/1gfkPi9) that more than 375,000 pounds of water hyacinth have been removed from the Stockton Deep Water […]
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