Transforming Urban Water Initiative
From Gray to Green Shorelines
About Transforming Shorelines
Funded by EPA Region 9 Water Quality Improvement Fund, the Transforming Shorelines Project is supporting collaborative engagement on nature-based solutions.
Transforming Shorelines will:
- Build regional capacity for nature-based solutions through technical support and analyses;
- Advance a suite of NBS projects through design, permitting and implementation, and;
- Advance state of the art water quality improvement approaches at the Oro Loma Horizontal Levee site.
News and Updates
Thank you to those of you who have participated in one of our Transforming Shorelines Collaborative meetings over the past 2 years. More news and information to come in 2023!
Transforming Shorelines Collaborative
The Transforming Shorelines Collaborative (TSC) comprises practitioners and experts on nature-based solutions, wastewater treatment, resiliency and nutrient management including regulators, landowners and stakeholders, individual wastewater treatment facilities, regional entities and practitioners/experts involved in habitat restoration, treatment wetlands, or shoreline resilience. The TSC will meet bi-annually.
Who We Are
The TSC is convened by a Core Team of project participants representing a broad range of partners from across the Estuary. Our leadership team is listed below:
- Angela Perantoni, UC Berkeley
- Carlos Diaz, Engineer (formerly with ESA and designer of the Oro Loma Horizontal Levee)
- Dr. David Sedlak, UC Berkeley
- Jackie Zipkin, East Bay Dischargers Authority
- Jason Warner, Oro Loma Sanitary District
- Jeremy Lowe, San Francisco Estuary Institute
- Alex Thomsen, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Heidi Nutters, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Liz Juvera, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Diana Fu, San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Luisa Valiela, EPA Region 9
- Medi Sinaki, Valley Water
- Nasi Basiri, Valley Water
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Dear Colleague,
You’re invited to attend the fourth meeting of the Transforming Shorelines Collaborative. This virtual meeting will build off the creative and insightful energy of our prior events, and strengthen this innovative regional effort. We hope you will join us for this engaging session.
The Transforming Shorelines Project is supporting collaborative engagement on nature-based solutions (NBS). Transforming Shorelines goals are to (1) build regional capacity for nature-based solutions through technical support and analyses; (2) advance a suite of NBS projects through design, permitting and implementation, and; (3) advance state of the art water quality improvement approaches at the Oro Loma Horizontal Levee site.
The Transforming Shorelines Collaborative is a hands-on forum for wastewater treatment managers, planners, regulators, designers, and engineers to discuss best practices for nature-based shoreline infrastructure projects that incorporate treated wastewater.
The fourth meeting of the Transforming Shorelines Collaborative will spotlight the First Mile Horizontal Levee – an innovative NbS adaptation project located on the City of Hayward shoreline. The project will apply the concept behind the Oro Loma Horizontal Levee Demonstration Project to an approximately one-mile reach of the Hayward shoreline between Bockman Canal and Sulphur Creek. This multi-benefit adaptation project will use NbS to provide sea level rise resilience, water quality improvement, and habitat enhancements, in addition to the flood protection functions of a more traditional levee. During this Collaborative meeting, we will explore the First Mile’s design and challenges, and how this pivotal project fits into the larger scope of future NbS project implementation. We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event!
Featured Speakers & Expert Panel:
- Caitlin Sweeney – San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- Jackie Zipkin – East Bay Dischargers Authority
- Mark Lindley – Environmental Science Associates
- Matt Graul – East Bay Regional Parks District
- Heidi Nutters – San Francisco Estuary Partnership
- And more
October 19, 2021
9:00-12:00pm
Zoom Link to Follow
To RSVP, please complete the RSVP form or email Liz Juvera (liz.juvera@sfestuary.org).
Meeting 4 – October 19, 2022
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Meeting 3 – October 7, 2021
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Meeting 2 – December 1, 2020
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Meeting 1 – March 2, 2020
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