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Construction Crack-Down Every time it rains, Scott Stranzl pulls on his rubber boots and walks the 1100-acre, 960-housing-unit Five Canyons construction site in Castro Valley to see where the water's going. As the mudbuster and pollution policeman (he prefers the title "environmental compliance monitor") for Centex Homes, it's this consultant from Zander Associates' job to inspect the site before and after storms to make sure erosion and runoff control measures are working ... »Read More

A Model Junkyard BayKeeper's Daniel Cooper says that up until recently, Pick Your Part Auto Wrecking in Hayward was a "typical" junkyard ... »Read More Bulletin Board A list of 101 "scientifically defensible" indicators of the Estuary's health was completed at a January workshop ... »Read More Inside the Agencies The State Board has "more recommendations than resources" after the eight public advisory task forces charged with developing recommendations ... »Read More Fuel Leaks Left To Nature? A California-wide controversy has erupted over the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Recommendations to Improve the Cleanup Process ... »Read More Alameda Station's Future Decided - Maybe Plans for redeveloping the Alameda Naval Air Station are on their way to Washington, but several potentially divisive questions ... »Read More Dentists Sue Over Mercury A lawsuit challenging recent amendments to the water quality control plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin was filed ... »Read More CALFED Brief California's search for a long-term solution to statewide conflicts over how to manage the Bay-Delta system to best benefit farmers, city dwellers, wetlands ... »Read More Mini CALFED Glossary Conjunctive use- The operation of a groundwater basin (for water storage) in conjunction with a surface water storage ... »Read More Core Actions - At the Core of CALFED's Top 20 The draft core actions listed below are actions common to all CALFED alternatives described opposite ... »Read More Legislating Away Aquatic Invaders Though alien invasions is the topic of a Washington DC conference planned for March 22, the experts flown in ... »Read More A Countywide Mitigation Model A new model for habitat conservation is emerging in Yolo County. Five years of public-private consensus building has produced ... »Read More Land Use Lowdown The Bay-Delta region will swell by over a million people within the next two decades, and resulting urban growth and land uses changes ... »Read More 12 Steps to Local CCMP Action Santa Clara County has incorporated many CCMP elements into its General Plan (see below). Based on this experience, Santa Clara suggests ... »Read More