The San Francisco Estuary Partnership’s (SFEP) base funding bill, S1523, has made it out of the United States House and the Senate and is now awaiting approval from the President. The SFEP, along with the other 27 other national Estuary Programs, was established...
Drought response efforts just got a major boost in the Bay Area. On November 12, 2014, the San Francisco Estuary Partnership was awarded a $32 million Integrated Regional Water Management (IRWM) Grant (Proposition 84) from the California Department of Water Resources...
Water quality monitoring results taken from last year’s rainy season show that rain gardens constructed in El Cerrito in 2010 are doing the job they were built to do: removing pollutants from stormwater runoff. Urban stormwater runoff is a leading cause of pollution...
ABAG Celebrates Half Century of Service to the Cities, Towns, and Counties of the Bay Area 1961 – 2011 View Photos During the ABAG 50th / MTC 40th Anniversary Gala on Friday, January 21st at the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley more than 330 guests celebrated ABAG’s...
New Delta & California Water Legislation: How will the Bay Area be affected? Concerned about the future of the San Francisco Bay Delta, the linchpin of the state’s water system? Wondering what the new package of water bills just passed will mean for the Bay Area?...
