The Projects & Programs Database is intended to catalog the work being done by groups and organizations that are moving forward a vision of a thriving future in the Bay Delta bioregion.
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The Floodplain Forward Coalition is a group of landowners, growers, water suppliers, conservation groups such as CalTrout, and governmental agencies who are all committed to investing in projects that advance floodplain reactivation and improve habitat for fish and wildlife while maintaining farming and managed wetland operations. Groups within the coalition, all with varying political interests and expertise, have come together to dedicate their time, resources, and advocacy to find the best possible solutions that support vibrant landscapes, wildlife, cities, farms, rural communities, and river systems across the Sacramento Valley.
California
Protecting carbon stocks and increasing carbon sequestration can support climate change mitigation and maintain healthy, resilient ecosystems. To support SFPUC managers in making informed carbon management decisions, the Alameda Watershed Carbon Assessment offers scientific guidance on the watershed’s current and potential performance as a natural climate solution. This assessment was framed by two main objectives: to quantify current carbon stocks in the Alameda Watershed, and to evaluate opportunities to enhance carbon sequestration in its vegetation and soils. A central tenet of this analysis is that the value of any management action depends on the ecological context. Ecologically appropriate carbon management activities should provide durable, long-term greenhouse gas benefits, support multiple ecosystem functions, and avoid or minimize ecological tradeoffs. This study’s approach and findings can set an example for other public and private lands where managers are interested in making informed decisions around land-based carbon sequestration.
California
EcoAtlas is a set of tools for generating, assembling, storing, visualizing, sharing, and reporting environmental data and information. The tools can be used individually or together, and they can be adjusted or tuned to meet the specific needs of environmental planners, regulators, managers, scientists, and educators.
North Richmond Shoreline Adaptation Project
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
North Richmond, located near the beautiful San Francisco Bay shoreline, is becoming more vulnerable to flooding from sea-level rise due to climate change. According to current projections, in 30 years, the West County Wastewater (WCW) facility, serving a population of 100,000, will often be flooded, reducing its ability to treat our wastewater. By the end of the century, parts of the North Richmond neighborhood and Richmond Parkway will be flooded during storms and high tides unless we act now to protect our shoreline and neighborhood.
Thanks to Measure AA funding, North Richmond has a unique opportunity to create a plan that will help the community adapt to sea-level rise and protect its shoreline. This visionary project brings together community members, scientists, and design experts to increase ecosystem resilience, protect neighborhoods and wastewater service, and craft a shoreline plan that will improve the way communities use and access the shoreline.
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
North Richmond, located near the beautiful San Francisco Bay shoreline, is becoming more vulnerable to flooding from sea-level rise due to climate change. According to current projections, in 30 years, the West County Wastewater (WCW) facility, serving a population of 100,000, will often be flooded, reducing its ability to treat our wastewater. By the end of the century, parts of the North Richmond neighborhood and Richmond Parkway will be flooded during storms and high tides unless we act now to protect our shoreline and neighborhood.
Thanks to Measure AA funding, North Richmond has a unique opportunity to create a plan that will help the community adapt to sea-level rise and protect its shoreline. This visionary project brings together community members, scientists, and design experts to increase ecosystem resilience, protect neighborhoods and wastewater service, and craft a shoreline plan that will improve the way communities use and access the shoreline.
Richmond
California
Green Stormwater Infrastructure by and for Communities is a collaboration between the San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI), San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP), Urban Tilth, and University of California, Berkeley (UCB). Engagement for the project is being directed by Hood Planning Group and Urban Tilth.
The project aims to build the capacity of residents in East Oakland and Richmond, California, to understand and influence local water quality. Capacity building will include technical knowledge, hands-on experience, and exploration of relationships between green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), environmental justice, race, and socioeconomic status.
Currently, the project is creating a curriculum to engage underserved communities in GSI design, invite them to engage with the project team in a community-driven GSI planning process, and build community capacity to drive future planning efforts. Communities will be invited to experience exciting visualization and GSI planning tools (e.g., augmented reality, GreenPlan-IT), as well as groundwork and monitoring at local GSI installations.
The project aims to build the capacity of residents in East Oakland and Richmond, California, to understand and influence local water quality. Capacity building will include technical knowledge, hands-on experience, and exploration of relationships between green stormwater infrastructure (GSI), environmental justice, race, and socioeconomic status.
Currently, the project is creating a curriculum to engage underserved communities in GSI design, invite them to engage with the project team in a community-driven GSI planning process, and build community capacity to drive future planning efforts. Communities will be invited to experience exciting visualization and GSI planning tools (e.g., augmented reality, GreenPlan-IT), as well as groundwork and monitoring at local GSI installations.
One of the largest wetland restoration projects in the United States, the South Bay Salt Pond (SBSP) Restoration Project is a multiagency effort to restore 15,100 acres of former salt evaporation ponds in South San Francisco Bay in phases over a 50-year period.
Ducks Unlimited, Inc. (DU) will construct Phase 2 actions in the Ravenswood Ponds in order to create a 355-acre mosaic of tidal wetlands, upland transition zone, and managed pond habitats. In the 295-acre Pond R4, DU will breach levees, install ditch blocks, dredge pilot channels, and construct 15 acres of gently sloping upland transition zone along the edge of an existing landfill. DU will breach and lower the A19 berm in additional locations in order to improve tidal circulation in the 265-acre A19. By improving the connection to Bay’s waters and sediment, tidal vegetation in A19 is expected to substantially expand, providing additional habitat to the endangered and threatened species that have re-occupied A20 and A21.
This project includes $1,200,000 million for the California Wildlife Foundation (CWF) to oversee the applied studies and monitoring identified in the SBSP Restoration Project’s Adaptive Management Plan (AMP). The AMP outlines how the SBSP Restoration Project will implement the project in phases and learn from the results in order to better understand the significant scientific uncertainties associated with a project of this scale and to avoid undesirable environmental impacts.
Ducks Unlimited, Inc. (DU) will construct Phase 2 actions in the Ravenswood Ponds in order to create a 355-acre mosaic of tidal wetlands, upland transition zone, and managed pond habitats. In the 295-acre Pond R4, DU will breach levees, install ditch blocks, dredge pilot channels, and construct 15 acres of gently sloping upland transition zone along the edge of an existing landfill. DU will breach and lower the A19 berm in additional locations in order to improve tidal circulation in the 265-acre A19. By improving the connection to Bay’s waters and sediment, tidal vegetation in A19 is expected to substantially expand, providing additional habitat to the endangered and threatened species that have re-occupied A20 and A21.
This project includes $1,200,000 million for the California Wildlife Foundation (CWF) to oversee the applied studies and monitoring identified in the SBSP Restoration Project’s Adaptive Management Plan (AMP). The AMP outlines how the SBSP Restoration Project will implement the project in phases and learn from the results in order to better understand the significant scientific uncertainties associated with a project of this scale and to avoid undesirable environmental impacts.
The STRAW Program is combating climate change with every restoration project it takes on. STRAW (Students and Teachers Restoring A Watershed) is a collaborative network of students and teachers leading their communities to restore their local ecosystems.
STRAW empowers communities to heal the land, revitalize habitats, generate cleaner water, sequester carbon, empower children, train teachers, and inspire the conservation leaders.
STRAW empowers communities to heal the land, revitalize habitats, generate cleaner water, sequester carbon, empower children, train teachers, and inspire the conservation leaders.
This is your one stop shop for information and updates on this community-informed project for nearly 100 acres of restored intertidal wetland, upland and improved public access amenities at Rush Ranch, Suisun Marsh, Solano County.
Phase 1 from 2024-2025 is focused on planning, permitting, and design. Solano Land Trust and our contracting partners will conduct community engagement and prepare final designs and engineering plans, an adaptive management plan, and permit applications, for the restoration of 80 acres of tidal wetland, 8 acres of wetland-upland transition zone, and 1 acre of seasonal wetland, and related public access trails and amenities.
Phase 2 from 2025-2027 is focused on one the ground restoration and construction of new public access amenities.
Phase 1 from 2024-2025 is focused on planning, permitting, and design. Solano Land Trust and our contracting partners will conduct community engagement and prepare final designs and engineering plans, an adaptive management plan, and permit applications, for the restoration of 80 acres of tidal wetland, 8 acres of wetland-upland transition zone, and 1 acre of seasonal wetland, and related public access trails and amenities.
Phase 2 from 2025-2027 is focused on one the ground restoration and construction of new public access amenities.
The goal of the Delta Islands Adaptation Project is to improve the resilience and sustainability of the islands in California’s Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, owned by the Metropolitan Water District (MWD). These lands face adaptation challenges similar to many other reclaimed tracts in the Central Delta and are crucial to meeting the State’s co-equal goals of ecosystem restoration, water supply reliability for California, and valuing the Delta as an evolving place for those who live, work and recreate within it.
Funded under Prop 1 Watershed Restoration Grant Q2096022, this collaborative co-design planning process has two phases. The first phase is to select the island that offers the best opportunity for island-wide, landscape-scale scenario planning. Phase 1 was completed in the early summer of 2022, based on feedback from a public meeting and survey, resulting in the selection of Bouldin and the creation of the Phase 1 final report.
The second phase will focus on landscape-scale scenario planning for the chosen island – developing and evaluating conceptual-level, multi-use scenarios.
The Adaptation Clearinghouse allows you to navigate a searchable database of adaptation and resilience resources that have been organized by climate impact, topic, and region. Importantly, the Adaptation Clearinghouse also provides a platform for Californians to share and access case studies and stories about how and why their communities, businesses, and organizations are responding to climate change impacts.
While the impacts of climate change pose immediate and growing threats to California’s economy, environment, and people, we know that across the state, Californians are coming together to find local solutions that build resilience and reduce risk. The Adaptation Clearinghouse aims to support a community of practice across the state through knowledge exchange between communities, businesses, and across levels of government.
Types of resources in the Clearinghouse include but are not limited to:
Assessments, plans or strategies
Communication or educational materials
Planning and/or policy guidance
Data, tools, and research
Case studies, projects, or examples
While the impacts of climate change pose immediate and growing threats to California’s economy, environment, and people, we know that across the state, Californians are coming together to find local solutions that build resilience and reduce risk. The Adaptation Clearinghouse aims to support a community of practice across the state through knowledge exchange between communities, businesses, and across levels of government.
Types of resources in the Clearinghouse include but are not limited to:
Assessments, plans or strategies
Communication or educational materials
Planning and/or policy guidance
Data, tools, and research
Case studies, projects, or examples
One of the world’s premier facilities for training field biologists in avian ecology, our Palomarin Field Station, located in Point Reyes National Seashore, has welcomed more than 700 interns from 23 countries since 1966. Palomarin data—including information on songbirds, habitat, weather, and the impact of environmental change—have been the basis for 100+ peer-reviewed scientific papers.
Today this includes the longest running mist-netting and landbird-banding monitoring effort West of the Mississippi and third in the continent, and a songbird nest-monitoring and territory-mapping program that spans four decades.
Today this includes the longest running mist-netting and landbird-banding monitoring effort West of the Mississippi and third in the continent, and a songbird nest-monitoring and territory-mapping program that spans four decades.
999 Mesa Road
Bolinas
California
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Otter Spotter is a community science program made to collect, map and save otter sightings. We began in the San Francisco Bay Area, and are now accepting sightings from anywhere in North America. Anyone can collect a sighting!
Just as our world is changing rapidly in the wake of climate change, restoration strategies to protect and perpetuate our communities, towns, cities, and environments must change also. Our team at Central Coast Wilds (CCW) native plant nursery and at Ecological Concerns Inc. have worked diligently to do just that for the San Francisquito Creek Flood Reduction, Ecosystem Restoration, and Recreation Project. We are proud to be a part of a changing tide with floodplain mitigation and riverbank revegetation we completed in response to predicted sea level rise in the area. As a result of our project, 7,000 tidal marsh and marsh transition plants have been replanted along several reaches of the river at the city limits of Palo Alto and East Palo Alto.
The Heron’s Head Park Shoreline Resilience Project consists of restoring and enhancing wetlands and upland habitat along the Bay shoreline in Bayview Hunters Point to stabilize the shoreline and improve habitat.
The overall project will provide beneficial native habitat enhancement improvements to an urban shoreline park in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, a diverse and economically disadvantaged community in southeast San Francisco. In addition to the habitat enhancement benefits, the project includes community engagement, local job training in green infrastructure activities, and workforce development.
The overall project will provide beneficial native habitat enhancement improvements to an urban shoreline park in the Bayview Hunters Point neighborhood, a diverse and economically disadvantaged community in southeast San Francisco. In addition to the habitat enhancement benefits, the project includes community engagement, local job training in green infrastructure activities, and workforce development.
Since its inception in 1993, the Regional Monitoring Program for Water Quality in San Francisco Bay (RMP) has provided the information that regulators and decision-makers need to manage Bay water quality effectively. The RMP is an innovative collaborative effort between SFEI, the Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the regulated discharger community.
The Living River Flood Project has transformed the River & waterfront in Napa. It has restored mudflats and tidal marsh, creating habitat for fish, birds and wildlife, and places to explore and enjoy.
Flood Project overview
The Goals and Objectives for a “Living” Napa River System, based on geomorphic, water quality and habitat considerations was completed for the Community Coalition for a Napa River Flood Management Plan on July 2, 1996. The document was developed by the “Water Quality/Fish Habitat” design review workgroup, co-chaired by Leslie Ferguson, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and Jim Swanson, California Department of Fish and Game.
The document played a critical role in the final design of the Napa River Flood Management Plan because it provided the local community with a scientifically based reference document that could be used to guide project design. A “living” Napa River system functions properly when it conveys variable flows and stores water in the floodplain, balances sediment input with sediment transport, provides good quality fish and wildlife habitat, maintains good water quality and quantity and provides recreation and aesthetic values.
A “living” Napa River conveys equilibrium and harmony with all that it touches and resonates this through the human and natural environment.
One of the goals is for activities along the Napa River to use geomorphic principles involving river channel geometry and sediment transport dynamics, taking into account the differences between estuarine and riverine reaches. The overall objective is to maintain a long-term, sustaining river ecosystem that is a “living” Napa River system.
Flood Project overview
The Goals and Objectives for a “Living” Napa River System, based on geomorphic, water quality and habitat considerations was completed for the Community Coalition for a Napa River Flood Management Plan on July 2, 1996. The document was developed by the “Water Quality/Fish Habitat” design review workgroup, co-chaired by Leslie Ferguson, San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and Jim Swanson, California Department of Fish and Game.
The document played a critical role in the final design of the Napa River Flood Management Plan because it provided the local community with a scientifically based reference document that could be used to guide project design. A “living” Napa River system functions properly when it conveys variable flows and stores water in the floodplain, balances sediment input with sediment transport, provides good quality fish and wildlife habitat, maintains good water quality and quantity and provides recreation and aesthetic values.
A “living” Napa River conveys equilibrium and harmony with all that it touches and resonates this through the human and natural environment.
One of the goals is for activities along the Napa River to use geomorphic principles involving river channel geometry and sediment transport dynamics, taking into account the differences between estuarine and riverine reaches. The overall objective is to maintain a long-term, sustaining river ecosystem that is a “living” Napa River system.
The Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta comprises over 100 islands and tracts northeast of the San Francisco Bay. Most are below sea level and are protected by levees, whereas some are tidal or above sea level. The Delta supports a unique ecosystem, communities, and agricultural land, and plays a key role in the California water distribution system. The flood risks facing the Delta are complex and varied. Some islands are at high risk from flood damage to human life or structures and property, whereas others are at risk of impacting the State's water supply, flooding important habitat, or compromising the Delta's historic towns, prime agricultural land, or public roadways. The possible investments to mitigate these risks are numerous, and they will affect Delta risks differently.
The Delta Stewardship Council commissioned the development of a risk modeling framework and decision support tool (DST) to aid in the formulation of a Delta Levees Investment Strategy. The DST is an interactive tool that allows exploration of the data, analysis, and results.
The Delta Stewardship Council commissioned the development of a risk modeling framework and decision support tool (DST) to aid in the formulation of a Delta Levees Investment Strategy. The DST is an interactive tool that allows exploration of the data, analysis, and results.
The Groundwater Exchange is a central, collaborative, and publicly accessible online resource center connecting water managers, water users, and community members with tools and resources to support the design and implementation of effective Groundwater Sustainability Plans under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act. The Groundwater Exchange is a program of the California Water Library and is a project of the Multiplier, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that helps us protect and foster a healthy, sustainable, resilient, and equitable world.
California
THE MISSION OF THE CALIFORNIA WATER LIBRARY
Finding information on California’s water issues can be a frustrating and time-consuming task. Valuable reports and information are scattered around the internet and are difficult, if not impossible, to find. The California Water Library is designed to provide easy, organized access to published information about California water so that any interested party can access the information needed to make informed decisions about the state’s most precious natural resource.
The California Water Library provides streamlined access to a curated collection of reports, articles, essays, fact sheets, research, white papers, and other documents generated by state and federal agencies as well as non-governmental organizations. Multi-parameter search tools enable users to find documents based on author, publisher, date, title, keyword, and more.
Finding information on California’s water issues can be a frustrating and time-consuming task. Valuable reports and information are scattered around the internet and are difficult, if not impossible, to find. The California Water Library is designed to provide easy, organized access to published information about California water so that any interested party can access the information needed to make informed decisions about the state’s most precious natural resource.
The California Water Library provides streamlined access to a curated collection of reports, articles, essays, fact sheets, research, white papers, and other documents generated by state and federal agencies as well as non-governmental organizations. Multi-parameter search tools enable users to find documents based on author, publisher, date, title, keyword, and more.
To address these impacts and reduce the Delta's vulnerability to climate change, including the human communities who rely on the Delta, regional adaptation rooted in science-based decision-making is more critical than ever. We must move quickly, and we must move together to both plan and respond.
The Council embarked on its climate initiative, Delta Adapts, in 2018. Delta Adapts consists of two parts: (1) a climate change Vulnerability Assessment for the Delta and Suisun Marsh, and (2) an Adaptation Plan (formerly referred to as the Adaptation Strategy) detailing strategies and actions to adapt and respond to the identified vulnerabilities. It takes a comprehensive, regional approach to climate resiliency that cuts across regional boundaries and commits to collaboration across state, local, and regional levels.
The Council embarked on its climate initiative, Delta Adapts, in 2018. Delta Adapts consists of two parts: (1) a climate change Vulnerability Assessment for the Delta and Suisun Marsh, and (2) an Adaptation Plan (formerly referred to as the Adaptation Strategy) detailing strategies and actions to adapt and respond to the identified vulnerabilities. It takes a comprehensive, regional approach to climate resiliency that cuts across regional boundaries and commits to collaboration across state, local, and regional levels.
Our project aims to raise awareness of the tradeoffs involved in managing the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta amid future droughts and rising sea levels. We will facilitate community engagement through public dialogue to collaboratively design future scenarios. These future scenarios will cover a wide range of water management options during drought periods that focus on salinity. Using advanced modeling techniques, we will visualize and analyze how these scenarios might unfold in the future, sharing our results throughout the process with project participants. This participatory scenario planning process will emphasize co-learning through the exchange of dialogue and perspectives, while including voices and knowledge from underrepresented groups and communities.
To ensure comprehensive insights, we will work closely with agency scientists, managers, and diverse sectors of the public. Our diligent efforts will quantify the tradeoffs associated with different management alternatives, considering ecosystems, wildlife populations, economies, recreation, and agriculture. Ultimately, we will share our findings with decision-makers in state agencies and local municipalities, empowering them with valuable information to make informed decisions.
To ensure comprehensive insights, we will work closely with agency scientists, managers, and diverse sectors of the public. Our diligent efforts will quantify the tradeoffs associated with different management alternatives, considering ecosystems, wildlife populations, economies, recreation, and agriculture. Ultimately, we will share our findings with decision-makers in state agencies and local municipalities, empowering them with valuable information to make informed decisions.
California
The Sonoma Valley Knowledge Base is a library of local and regional information needed for science-based watershed management. Planners, scientists, and the public can find information here on many topics — groundwater, stream flow, historic changes to the stream and watershed system, fish habitat quality, and many more aspects of keeping a watershed healthy.
The Knowledge Base specifically supports the creation and review of a new Watershed Plan for Sonoma Creek, updating the 1997 Sonoma Creek Watershed Enhancement Plan by sharing information resources and the documentation that makes them usable. Monitoring and mapping data, reports, images, and other resources can be discovered and downloaded in this online digital library.
The Knowledge Base specifically supports the creation and review of a new Watershed Plan for Sonoma Creek, updating the 1997 Sonoma Creek Watershed Enhancement Plan by sharing information resources and the documentation that makes them usable. Monitoring and mapping data, reports, images, and other resources can be discovered and downloaded in this online digital library.
California
demonstrating the potential of establishing native eelgrass and oyster beds to protect the San Francisco Bay shoreline while creating biologically rich and diverse habitat that is resilient to changing environmental conditions
Created by Senate Bill 27 (Skinner, 2021) the California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry is a publicly accessible web platform that facilitates funding of nature-based and direct air capture projects that deliver on California’s climate goals.
The California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) is required by Senate Bill 27 (Skinner, 2021) to create a Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry. The Registry is intended to facilitate funding of nature-based and direct air capture projects that deliver on California’s climate goals.
Please visit this page for answered Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) related to SB 27 and the Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry.
NEW: On June 30, 2023, CNRA launched a beta version of the SB 27 California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry for user testing and feedback. The beta site can be accessed at the following link: https://climateprojectregistry.resources.ca.gov/. CNRA is requesting feedback regarding user interface and experience be sent to naturebasedsolutions@resources.ca.gov by COB, Friday, August 18th to be considered in the final Registry design. Please note that this a beta version of the Registry and projects cannot currently be listed or backed at this time. The projects currently listed on the Registry are for demonstration purposes only and are to allow users to see how projects could be displayed, searched, and evaluated for backing.
Please visit this page for answered Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) related to SB 27 and the Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry.
NEW: On June 30, 2023, CNRA launched a beta version of the SB 27 California Carbon Sequestration and Climate Resiliency Project Registry for user testing and feedback. The beta site can be accessed at the following link: https://climateprojectregistry.resources.ca.gov/. CNRA is requesting feedback regarding user interface and experience be sent to naturebasedsolutions@resources.ca.gov by COB, Friday, August 18th to be considered in the final Registry design. Please note that this a beta version of the Registry and projects cannot currently be listed or backed at this time. The projects currently listed on the Registry are for demonstration purposes only and are to allow users to see how projects could be displayed, searched, and evaluated for backing.
The California Natural Resources Agency launched the 30x30 Partnership to support implementation of 30x30 and to engage and empower all partners working toward its objectives. The 30x30 Partnership is as an alliance of groups and leaders advancing 30x30 and is open to all who are interested in participating! The Partnership provides an organizational hub for dialogue, shared learning, coordination, and strategic planning. The 30x30 Partnership convenes regular meetings of participants to communicate progress, highlight best practices, address challenges, and identify ongoing opportunities to meet our shared 30x30 goals.
San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science (SFEWS) is an academic, peer-reviewed electronic journal that addresses the extraordinarily complex and often problematic water resources issues in California. The journal showcases papers that describe the physics, chemistry, geology, and biology of the San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a region where resource-management issues of national significance represent a major part of the habitat of endangered species, while also providing the water supply for 8% of the population of the U.S.
EPA manages a competitive grant program to support projects to protect and restore San Francisco Bay. This grant program, known as the San Francisco Bay Water Quality Improvement Fund (SFBWQIF), began in 2008. EPA has awarded over $128 million to 91 grants . These projects include over 100 partners who are contributing an additional $248 million to restore wetlands and watersheds and reduce polluted runoff. This year we are also announcing combined FY23 and FY24 base funding for 14 new projects at $38 million. The new EPA SF Bay Program Office will launch this year with an annual program budget of approximately $50M.
Nature-based solutions (NBS) harness the power of nature to build California’s resilience to future climate-driven extremes, protect communities from the climate crisis, and remove carbon from our atmosphere, California State leaders recognize that expanding NBS is essential to meeting California’s core climate goals and in the last few years alone has:
1) Established the 2022 California’s Natural and Working Lands (NWL) Climate Smart Strategy, which identifies priority NBS to deliver climate benefits across all of California’s diverse landscapes and guides State programs and investments.
2) Integrated this strategy into the State’s 2022 Scoping Plan to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2045.
3) Identified accelerating NBS and strengthening the resilience of natural systems as one of six priority “north stars” guiding California’s 2021 Climate Adaptation Strategy.
4) Invested approximately $9.6 billion since 2020 to supercharge California’s NBS climate action, as of April 2024.
5) Built new partnerships with NBS leaders around the world to accelerate and scale successful efforts, including China, Australia, Canada, and South Africa.
6) Enacted Assembly Bill 1757 (2022), a seminal law calling for a suite of actions to center NBS in California’s climate efforts and urgently scale their implementation in line with best available science.
1) Established the 2022 California’s Natural and Working Lands (NWL) Climate Smart Strategy, which identifies priority NBS to deliver climate benefits across all of California’s diverse landscapes and guides State programs and investments.
2) Integrated this strategy into the State’s 2022 Scoping Plan to Achieve Carbon Neutrality by 2045.
3) Identified accelerating NBS and strengthening the resilience of natural systems as one of six priority “north stars” guiding California’s 2021 Climate Adaptation Strategy.
4) Invested approximately $9.6 billion since 2020 to supercharge California’s NBS climate action, as of April 2024.
5) Built new partnerships with NBS leaders around the world to accelerate and scale successful efforts, including China, Australia, Canada, and South Africa.
6) Enacted Assembly Bill 1757 (2022), a seminal law calling for a suite of actions to center NBS in California’s climate efforts and urgently scale their implementation in line with best available science.
Until a little more than a decade ago, this area was productive farmland, used for growing crops like tomatoes, alfalfa, melons and almonds. Now it’s set to be California’s next state park after a restoration project spearheaded by River Partners converted the ranch into rewilded riverside habitat. As climate change has doubled the likelihood of flooding in California, and is projected to increase runoff from storms by as much as 200 to 400 percent, this restored floodplain is proving to be a promising approach.
The objective of the Clean Water Act (CWA) is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the Nation's waters. CWA programs support monitoring, assessment, protection, prevention of polluted runoff in waterways and wastewater infrastructure.
EPA's Region 9 Tribal Water Office manages all grants related to the Clean Water Act for over 100 federally recognized tribes within Region 9. The Tribal Water Office also provides programmatic and technical assistance for water quality standards and for the CWA grant programs. View CWA Project Officers.
EPA's Region 9 Tribal Water Office manages all grants related to the Clean Water Act for over 100 federally recognized tribes within Region 9. The Tribal Water Office also provides programmatic and technical assistance for water quality standards and for the CWA grant programs. View CWA Project Officers.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) has launched the initial phase of its beaver translocation activities, recently conducting the first beaver conservation release in nearly 75 years. Working with the Maidu Summit Consortium, CDFW released a family of seven beavers into Plumas County, in a location that is known to the tribal community as Tásmam Koyóm.
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