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Water Agencies Tiptoe onto Dry Land Two bills inching through the state legislature as ESTUARY goes to press script two different roles for water districts in land use planning. One bill reinforces their historical, can-do, reactive role in which developers and city planners simply ask for water service and get it - SB1250 would force the East Bay Municipal Utilitys District to supply 11,000 new homes in the Dougherty Valley with water (water EBMUD isn't sure it has). The other bill writes a more proactive role for districts statewide - AB2673 would require cities and counties considering new development outside a district's service area to consult with water suppliers first ... »Read More

Feedback If something you read in this newsletter gets your goat or triggers a thought please write us at ESTUARY Feedback ... »Read More News Round-Up INTEGRATED RIVER MANAGEMENT: Sacramento almost flooded in 1986. Ever since agencies and homeowners have been struggling to better secure their city ... »Read More Inside the Agencies TOXICS LIMBO: A March court decision makes California the only state in the union without water quality standards for toxics ... »Read More Long-term Delta Planning "Environmentalists left the negotiating table on long-term solutions for Delta protection in protest over the governor's abandonment ... »Read More Fail to Hatch It's no wonder the California clapper rail is endangered. Foxes and rats are scarfing the species, cities are engulfing its habitat and pollution ... »Read More Bay Bottom History Lesson "Anthropogenic disturbance" may sound like a weather forecast and "human perturbation" a sexual disorder but in a new study ... »Read More The Last Wild Rivers In California's water wars, each battle has roots in previous conflicts. The Clavey River, a 37-mile tributary to the Tuolumne River ... »Read More Marks Stalks BCDC The S.F. Bay Commission has joined the endangered agency list due to a new bill sponsored by state Senator Milton Marks ... »Read More Demon Diazinon Scientists up and down the Estuary are finding the same toxic ingredient in urban stormwater, and it ain't anything "esoteric" like heavy metals ... »Read More CCMP Brief TRACKING IMPLEMENTATION: Citing a common desire to find out who's doing what to carry out actions recommended in the San Francisco Estuary Project's Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan ... »Read More Screening the Screens Men on the moon, nuclear fission and fish screens. Whether fish screens can move from the realm of scientific utopia to practical use ... »Read More