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Will Tracy's Boom Bust the Delta? Skyrocketing Bay Area housing prices aren't just driving would-be homeowners to distraction; they're also driving a Delta-area growth explosion that's turning once-sleepy farm towns into bedroom communities. The transformation of corn and tomato fields into cul-de-sacs is creating expensive challenges for area cities such as Tracy and raising serious questions about the cumulative impact on Delta water quality, as well as supply. Some think the burden on the state's water will be unsustainable in the long term ... »Read More

Pesky Pesticides Bay Area folk spray 85 tons of diazinon on their gardens and grounds each year, and lately, enough of it has been running off ... »Read More Hope According to House Freeman House wasn't clad in a tuxedo cozily sipping champagne when midnight struck on New Year's Eve 1982 ... »Read More Bulletin Board CALFED OFFICIAL In late September, the state of California made it official. The CALFED program, an $8.7 billion, multi-year plan ... »Read More Tweaking Folsom for Fish They meander upstream, defy waterfalls, and negotiate white water on their anadromous journeys to the cold freshwater of their natal streams ... »Read More Ancient Survivors Sieving through bucketloads of Bay-floor muck is not everyone's idea of glamorous research ... »Read More Dredge Bit Slip When BCDC's Allen Brooks inspected Port Sonoma in late August 2001, he found some pieces of cordgrass ... »Read More Suit Tossed Port of Oakland officials are jubilant that a lawsuit that could have delayed their 50-foot dredging and expansion projects has been thrown out ... »Read More Salt Pond Shakedown As state and federal dealmakers prepare to plunk 100 million greenbacks down on the Cargill table ... »Read More Cool Stuff at Cooley; Warm Springs Settles In Two South Bay projects could act as prototypes for restoring some of the Cargill ponds. At the 115-acre Cooley Landing site ... »Read More

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