Baykeeper Updates Related to Sea Level Rise

BK In The News: January 24, 2023
On Sunday, Jan. 22, a group of hikers stood on a hillside in China Camp State Park near San Rafael watching, not wildlife thriving in the park’s salt marshes, but cars and bicycles below. It was close to 12:30pm, and a short segment of the low-lying North San Pedro Road was covered in water,...
Press Release: January 6, 2023
Agencies Must Improve Sewage Systems to Meet Known Challenges OAKLAND—Reports indicate that recent heavy rains overwhelmed the East Bay Municipal Utility District’s sewage treatment plants. This means the agency has already possibly released millions of gallons of raw or partially treated sewage...
Blog Post: June 21, 2022
For millennia, the body of water we now call San Francisco Bay was brimming with oysters—so many that their discarded shells formed little mountains and ridges below the surface. Then things changed. The Gold Rush propelled decades of intense pollution and habitat destruction that decimated native...
Blog Post: February 18, 2022
A human-made island, at sea level, surrounded by San Francisco Bay, Alameda faces an unusually high risk from sea level rise. In the coming decades, sea levels around the Bay will rise by at least 2 feet. And new research from UC Berkeley shows that rising groundwater tables may cause flooding...
BK In The News: February 2, 2022
The sea is already rising, nibbling at vulnerable East Bay communities....  Local environmental and community groups are pushing back strongly against city governments and developers who continue advocating for building on threatened land, and the state and federal agencies that, in their view, do...
Blog Post: December 15, 2021
Last week, Baykeeper co-hosted a workshop with scientists and environmental justice advocates to tackle the threat of sea level and groundwater rise inundating the Bay’s toxic sites. There are over 1,000 contaminated hotspots around the Bay, many of which are vulnerable to rising waters, both from...
BK In The News: November 4, 2021
An NBC Bay Area investigation reveals a present danger from toxic materials, some buried more than a century ago. Scientists are only now beginning to understand the urgent threat as new science shows rising ground water could bring dangerous gases, liquids and even solids into neighborhood homes...
BK In The News: August 10, 2021
REDWOOD CITY — Environmentalists are rising up against a developer’s plan to dredge part of a San Francisco Bay tidal lagoon and use the fill to cover marshes around it so a 350-unit apartment complex can be built on top. Saying it would would destroy a natural habitat and expose apartment dwellers...
BK In The News: August 5, 2021
A World War II-era runway on the westernmost side of Seaplane Lagoon at Alameda Point will eventually be converted into a 12-acre urban park and tidal ecosystem. “De-Pave Park” (a placeholder name for now) will be an ecological open space designed to sequester carbon and adapt to rising sea levels...
BK In The News: June 18, 2021
Islais Creek is an unassuming waterway along San Francisco’s eastern industrial shoreline, meandering its way inland and providing a natural border between The City’s Bayview and Dogpatch neighborhoods. There’s a nice little park there, tucked under a bridge, that locals visit. But it’s not the...

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