EPA Awards Estuary Partnership $10.6 million for Bay Area Watershed Projects

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : Pivot Points: Moving Nature-based solutions for Water Quality Improvements and Shoreline Adaption ($9 million -- includes $4.5 million from EPA plus $4.5 million in matching funds from project partners)The Pivot Points project continues work that meets significant environmental outcomes for San Francisco Bay, including continued progress to restore 830 acres of tidal marsh, getting the First Mile Levee in Hayward to a shovel-ready state, and reducing nitrogen loads to the Bay, thereby ensuring improved habitat health, higher water quality, and protection of vulnerable East Bay communities from sea level rise.
55% : The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this summer approved a pair of grants to the San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP) to advance projects to protect and restore watersheds in Hayward, Richmond, San Pablo, and North Richmond.
53% : The Estuary Partnership's watershed protection and restoration projects include:Restoring Wildcat Creek: Community-Led Watershed Health Update and Priority Project ($12.2 million -- includes $6.1 million from EPA plus $6.1 million from West County Wastewater)The Wildcat Creek project in North Richmond and San Pablo seeks to create a watershed-scale restoration action plan, implement critically needed restoration in the lower part of the watershed, and create design plans to address critical gaps in the Wildcat Creek Trail that hinder underserved communities from accessing the bay shoreline and the extensive San Francisco Bay Trail network.
48% : Hosted by the Association of Bay Area Governments (ABAG), the San Francisco Estuary Partnership is a collaboration of local, state and federal agencies; non-governmental organizations; and academic and business leaders working to protect and restore the San Francisco Bay-Delta Estuary"This combination of local and federal funds not only focuses on supporting projects that improve local water quality, mitigate the impacts of flooding, and strengthen climate resilience for underserved communities, but also looks at ways to expand local and regional expertise in advancing nature-based solutions.

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