Category: Uncategorized

The California Office of Administrative Law has approved BCDC's climate change Bay Plan amendment. The policies are now in effect under state law.

This is a notice of future progam change of the San Francisco Bay Segment of the California Coastal Management Program.Final RPCnotice BPA 1 08

Continue Reading

Bipartisan Legislative Caucus Formed to Focus on Nation's Ports

October 27, 2011, Southern California Congresswoman Janice Hahn (D) and Texas Congressman Ted Poe (R) announced Tuesday the formation of the bipartisan House Ports Opportunity, Renewal, Trade, and Security (PORTS) Caucus.  According to the two House members, the mission of the legislative caucus will be to promote the important role played by the nation’s ports […]

Continue Reading

USGS Study: Sudden Clearing of Estuarine Waters…

David H. Schoellhamer with the U.S. Geological Survey published earlier this year a study on “Sudden Clearing of Estuarine Waters upon Crossing the Threshold from Transport to Supply Regulation of Sediment Transport as an Erodible Sediment Pool is Depleted: San Francisco Bay, 1999.”  Click here to download a PDF of the report.

Continue Reading

Stockton/West Sacramento Barge Project Receives Government Funds

The California inland port at Stockton has received another infusion of cash to complete a plan that will shift hundreds of truck-borne containers a week from area freeways to barges shuttling between Stockton and the Port of Oakland . . . Read full article at Pacific Maritime: http://www.pmmonlinenews.com/2011/08/stocktonwest-sacramento-barge-project.html

Continue Reading

Numeric Nutrient Endpoint (NNE) Development for San Francisco Bay Estuary: Literature Review and Data Gaps Analysis

On May 3rd, a the State and Regional Water Boards released the following report, entitled Numeric Nutrient Endpoint (NNE) Development for San Francisco Bay Estuary: Literature Review and Data Gaps Analysis, can be downloaded from the SF Bay NNE project page on the Water Board’s website at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/sanfranciscobay/water_issues/programs/planningtmdls/amendments/estuarynne.shtml The NNE assessment framework is the structured set of decision […]

Continue Reading