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The Art of a Clean Beach There's a mystery in the making on the Oakland waterfront, and the first clue isn't a knife in the dumpster but a snackpack wrapper on the beach. Indeed locals scouring the trash and boatwreck-cluttered shoreline discovered a second important clue when they scrutinized the plethora of empty wrappers: no pricetags. Since they're not marked for individual sale, clean-up crews speculate that they may be coming from a school upstream. The detective on the case is Patty St. Louis, one of 150 artists, boatbuilders, woodworkers and other craftspeople who live and/or work on the Fifth Avenue Peninsula near Clinton Basin. »Read More

Off Stream Gathers Steam Whatever strategy CALFED selects to fix the problems of the Bay and Delta, the chances are good that it will include increasing the state's water storage capacity ... »Read More Bulletin Board Cows and Horses in Deep Doo: This February's storms flooded numerous stable stalls, paddocks and horse pat piles, sending soil and manure into nearby ditches ... »Read More Farmers to Slake Suburban Thirst? A small agricultural irrigation district is making plans to sell enough water to serve the next 80,000-100,000 homes in San Joaquin County ... »Read More A Tale of Two Creeks: Butte Creek and Alameda Creek Can urban streams, many partially channelized for flood control or buried in city culverts, ever again offer viable fish habitat? Can their rural riparian cousins provide ... »Read More Migrating Fish Rock the Boat The "window of opportunity" when water can be pumped from the Delta with relatively little harm to migrating fish may become harder than ever to find ... »Read More El Niño: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Though El Niño browned the Bay and clouded the skies this spring, this periodic ocean-atmospheric disruption named for the Christ child can't be blamed for everything ... »Read More Central Valley Pinpoints Hot Spots The Central Valley's most polluted waterways occur near the City of Stockton, according to a report just released by the Regional Water Quality Control Board ... »Read More Flood of HCPs Raises Questions Habitat conservation plans, the agreements used to broker deals on land where endangered species are found, are likely to be the central battleground ... »Read More