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Purging Ships of Aquatic Invaders As Asia's clams and crabs take America's Pacific ports by storm, everyone's pointing the finger at ships' ballast where aquatic species often hitch a transoceanic ride. At least 2.4 million gallons of ballast water arrive in U.S. harbors from foreign ports every hour, according to a recent Sea Grant study. The average ship coming into S.F. Bay to tank up on oil or load up on cargo may unload 10,000-50,000 metric tons (3-13 million gallons) of ballast water with an accompanying menagerie of foreign invaders ... »Read More

Year-end Kudos ESTUARY would like to thank its 500 individual subscribers for supporting our efforts to provide an invaluable news clearinghouse ... »Read More Insert Alert If you have a new study you'd like to share, a new program you'd like to describe, a progress report you'd like to give or an event ... »Read More Indicators of Pow-Wow A "major shift in Bay-Delta scientific thinking" occurred at an October workshop where some fifty scientists gathered to discuss possible indicators ... »Read More Bulletin Board Sausal Creek: The restoration of Sausal Creek, which wanders down from Shepard and Palo Seco canyons to the flatlands of Fruitvale ... »Read More Inside the Agencies The State's $2 Million Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup Program faced an uncertain future as this issue went to press ... »Read More Water Wheeling & Dealing Longtime enemies in the North-South water wars are negotiating to present a late Christmas gift to the State Water Resources Control Board ... »Read More Enviro-Clips Push and Pull Over Tug Regs: New regulations requiring tug boat escorts for oil tankers and barges navigating the Bay ... »Read More Report's Influence Swells Changing the Course of California's Water - a landmark Lindsay Museum report released last spring - is changing the way Californians think ... »Read More Eco-Friendly Flood Control What do riprap, coconut skins and creeping wildrye have in common? They're part of a plan Save the American River's Frank Cirill calls ... »Read More CALFED BRIEF - Approaching Critical Mass By March, CALFED will complete its first rough cut on all alternative actions to restore the ecological health of the Bay-Delta ecosystem ... »Read More Mitten Crabs, Pike Worries Scientists are now certain that the Chinese mitten crab is widely distributed throughout the South Bay's numerous freshwater channels ... »Read More