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On Patrol
Dec 3, 2019

Investigating Pollution by Land, Air, and Water

What I saw on the San Francisco Bay shoreline that day worried me.  I asked our volunteer skipper, Robert, to maneuver the Baykeeper boat closer. Since the last time we'd been to the site, more heavy industrial equipment had piled up near...
Water Resources
Nov 26, 2019

Too little (but not too late) for the Petaluma River

In 1975, scientists found that the Petaluma River was so heavily contaminated with E. Coli and other bacteria that it was unsafe to have any contact with the water. The presumed sources of the bacteria included animal and human waste...
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