ANEP: About Estuaries - San Francisco Bay

About Estuaries:
Insights on the NEPs - San Francisco Bay

Five priority management issues are being addressed: decline of biological resources, pollutants, impacts from freshwater diversions and altered flow regime, intensified land use, and increased dredging and waterway modification.
Eight priorities are currently being pursued, to focus limited dollars and energy on activities considered most important for the Estuary's health:

Expand, restore and protect Bay-Delta wetlands.

Prevent the introduction of exotic organisms, plants and animals into the Estuary from all sources, and control their spread.

Promote watershed management throughout the Estuary.

Create incentives that encourage local government, landowners and communities to protect and restore the Estuary.

Reduce pollution of the Estuary from urban and agricultural runoff, and other non-point sources.

Strengthen public awareness about the Estuary's natural resources.

Expand the regional monitoring program to address all key CCMP issues, including pollution, wetlands, watersheds, dredging, biological resources, land use and flows. Integrate the results of scientific monitoring into management and regulatory actions.

Promulgate baseline inflow standards for San Francisco, San Pablo and Suisun Bays to protect and restore the Estuary ecosystem.

For more information about the San Francisco Estuary Project:

Call (510) 622-2465

Write us at San Francisco Estuary Project, c/o RWQCB, 1515 Clay Street, Suite 1400, Oakland, CA 94612

E-mail us at JAKelly@waterboards.ca.gov

Please visit our website at www.sfestuary.org