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Award Announcement – Richmond Inner Harbor Channel Maintenance Dredging Project, Contra Costa County, California

Contract Award PROJECT TITLE/LOCATION: Richmond Inner Harbor Channel Maintenance Dredging Project, Contra Costa County, California Contract Type: Construction  Solicitation No: W912P718C0015 Contractor:  Curtin Maritime PO Box 2531 Long Beach, CA 90813 Total Bid Price: $4,706,000.00  Small Business Contracting Officer: Theodore Turney

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CASA Connects for September 5, 2018

In the News  Media Focus: Flushables and Microplastics In recent weeks, a number of high-profile news articles have focused on nonflushable products and microplastics, both priority issues for CASA and our members. A New York Times article did an excellent job highlighting reasons why not to flush the vast majority of products that many people regard as […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onSeptember 7, 2018
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Transportation News for September 7, 2018

Mercury News: DMV rejects dozens of personalized plate requests a year Marin Independent Journal: Angel Island Ferry petition circulates to keep longtime operator San Francisco Examiner: JUMP bike launch in Presidio means e-scooters could launch there, too SOURCE: How San Diego Fueled California’s Gas Tax Repeal Effort Capital Public Radio: Proposition 6: The Fight Over Last Year’s California Gas Tax […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onSeptember 7, 2018
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Energy News for September 7, 2018

Bloomberg: In Response to Trump, Saudis Ramp Up Oil Exports Into the U.S. Platts: US, Japan tout energy sector cooperation with eye toward LNG infrastructure Financial Times: US shale boom begins to cool Utility Dive: Duke Energy petitions SC regulators to extend solar net metering RTO Insider: WAPA to Divide RC Services Between CAISO, SPP Bloomberg: Are Electric Scooters the Future […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onSeptember 7, 2018
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Featured Member: Weiss Associates

Weiss Associates is a certified California small business with a 38-year history of providing premier site investigation, remediation, and regulatory compliance services to many high-profile clients in the greater Bay Area. It all started in 1980 when our founder Richard Weiss, who was a Ph.D candidate in engineering geology at Stanford at the time, began […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onSeptember 7, 2018
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Water News for September 7, 2018

News Deeply: Water Agencies, Farmers Fret Over California’s Move to Regulate Wetlands CBS San Francisco: Increased Water Temps In Russian River Prompt Public Experiment Sacramento Bee: California wildfires: What new fires are burning now and where are they? Sacramento Bee: SLO County residents could be on the hook for $6 million to repair the Oroville Dam San Diego Union-Tribune: OPINION: Vote […]

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Sonoma Valley Clean Water Newsletter for September 4, 2018

  Update on   Silicon Valley Clean Water Regional Environmental Sewer Conveyance Upgrade Program (formerly known as Conveyance System Program)    September 4, 2018     Key Decisions Made to Launch SVCW’s  Long-Anticipated  Gravity Pipeline Project    Silicon Valley Clean Water’s (SVCW) long-anticipated gravity pipeline project was authorized to begin one of its key site […]

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Pacific Maritime Magazine Online for September 4, 2018

    FORWARD  SIGN UP TO RECEIVE PMM ONLINE       SUBSCRIBE TO THE PRINT EDITION           INSIDE PACIFIC MARITIME MAGAZINE      Jetsam   By Chris Philips,  Managing Editor     What’s long and thin, made of plastic, often brightly colored, floats in the Pacific and is the bane of humanity? […]

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