The San Francisco Estuary Partnership

The San Francisco Bay-Delta is named in the federal Clean Water Act as one of 28 “estuaries of national significance." For over 20 years, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership has worked together with local communities and federal and state agencies to improve the health of California’s most urbanized estuary.

Trash Capture Demonstration Project

Large device lowered from a crane (installation in San Jose)

Large device installation in San José

More than 60 Bay Area cities, towns, and counties are participating in SFEP's Bay Area-wide Trash Capture Demonstration Project, which completed its construction phase on March 1, 2013. The project used $4.245 million in federal stimulus funds and state bond funds to purchase and install more than 4,000 large and small trash capture devices around the Bay. The project aims to demonstrate the effectiveness of devices in capturing trash, and assist in permit compliance for the municipalities. Learn more

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Partnership News

SFEP's Watershed Groups Mapper shows where volunteers are working to protect and restore the Bay Area's water resources. Use the Mapper to find a group in your area, or start one.
In a new study, the Bay Institute found that combining tidal marsh habitat with a constructed levee can protect the bayshore from sea level rise and reduce levee construction and maintenance cost by almost 50 percent.