On a boat patrol near San Francisco, Baykeeper staff noticed a large recycling facility with trash lining the fences near the shoreline—only a wind gust away from releasing Styrofoam packing peanuts and plastic bags into the Bay. Baykeeper is following up to get the facility to contain its trash.
During another recent boat patrol, Baykeeper staff documented dilapidated piers disintegrating into the Bay near Islais Creek. Old infrastructure like this often contains paint, asbestos, rust, and other contaminants. The Baykeeper team is working to get the Port of San Francisco to clean up aging structures.
And Baykeeper staff aboard the patrol boat spotted a sand miner (below) culling sand from the Bay's floor. Sand depletion causes coastal erosion and habitat loss, and will exacerbate the impact of sea level rise. Baykeeper has been fighting in court since 2012 to stop allowing sand miners to harvest over a million cubic yards of Bay sand every year.
