Saving the Bay

How about an 8-day cruise all around San Francisco Bay and up the rivers to Napa, Sacramento and Stockton? American Cruise lines is planning to launch these boat tours in Spring 2023 starting at $6,095 per person.

Saving the Bay dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

New Bay Area cruise to make stop in Napa beginning in 2023 - The Points Guy While wine lovers have long cruised California’s prime viticulture region by rail via the Napa Valley Wine Train, an actual cruise will soon give travelers a

Why have parts of normally blue San Francisco Bay appeared as reddish brown since July? The culprit, scientists and public health experts suspect, is a harmful algal bloom caused by a microscopic marine organism, Heterosigma akashiwo, which is known to turn tides red. Not considered a serious right now, the bloom is nonetheless a warning signal about a potential threat to the Bay.

Saving the Bay dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

A harmful algal bloom is spreading in San Francisco Bay Scientists say it’s a ‘wake up call’ and 'ticking time bomb'

Did you know the San Jose-Santa Clara Wastewater Treatment facility is the largest source of fresh water entering the South Bay? Now a $164M upgrade will allow up to 750 acres of open treatment ponds to be reclaimed as Bay wetlands, wildlife habitat and developable land.

We cover the South Bay's huge wastewater facility in Episode 4, Bay in the Balance. dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

Environmental upgrade for South Bay sewage plant Upgrade to South Bay sewage plant should reduce odors and improve environment

San Francisco Bay recently got a double shake of good news -- 2,900 acres of former South Bay Salt Ponds will be restored and a new flood protection system will rise in Alviso to help protect San Jose (much of which is below sea level) thanks to a $545M funding cocktail for the programs.

We cover the history of salt mining in the Bay in Saving the Bay's Episode 2, Harbor of Harbors, and the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility in Episode 4, Bay in the Balance.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

San Jose: $545 million project breaks ground to improve flood protection along south San Francisco Bay shoreline Project is the latest in a growing list of major efforts to reduce Bay Area flood risk from sea level rise.

How will the Living Seawall planned for San Francisco's Embarcadero work? Special tiles will be placed along the water's edge to promote biodiversity and support native aquatic species, something already proven successful in Sydney Harbour (video in story link).

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

A Living Seawall Is Coming to San Francisco's Embarcadero This Summer Designed to mimic natural-occurring structures that hold marine wildlife, installing living seawalls is becoming a popular practice that improves traditional exposed concrete barriers. And San Francisco is getting one along the Embarcadero over the next few years.

Are there mermaids singing on the edge of the Bay in San Francisco's Marina? What you might be hearing is the Wave Organ, 25 concrete pipes designed to create sound from the approaching waters that started in 1986.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

Playing With the Tides: How San Francisco’s Iconic Wave Organ Sings Twenty-five concrete pipes capture the sounds of the ocean’s waves. The result is an ethereal melody.

Wow! 100-year old Betty Reid Soskin just retired as a National Park Service Park Ranger after a remarkable career.

We feature Betty speaking about her work in the Richmond Kaiser Shipyards during WWII. We also have several other interviews as well as color film of the Richmond and Sausalito shipyards in our Episode 4 section on the Bay and the War.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
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Oldest Active Ranger Betty Reid Soskin Retires From National Park Service Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest active National Park Service ranger, retired Thursday after more than 15 years.

Is the newest park along San Francisco Bay really on a former dump site? Brickyard Cove, just opened in Berkeley, got its name because it was a landfill with bricks, dirt and garbage slated for development by the Santa Fe's real estate arm when the shoreline was owned by the railroad,

We extensively cover the pioneering East Bay women who sparked the Save the Bay movement in Episode 4, Bay in the Balance.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

Brickyard Cove, Berkeley’s new park with a view of the Bay, opens to the public A park with sweeping views, wildflowers and wildlife has opened near the Berkeley Marina along University Avenue.

Kudos to Peninsula Congresswoman for making sure that San Francisco Bay received triple its usual EPA funding for shoreline restoration this fiscal year.

We cover multiple Bay restoration efforts in Saving the Bay's Episode 4, Bay in the Balance.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

Speier pushes $24 million in funding through for EPA's SF Bay restoration projects "This is a huge boost for accelerating wetland restoration and cleaning up water quality in the bay."

Do you know about the Giant Marsh Living Shoreline Project? Aimed at mitigating storm surges and sea level rise, it began in 2019, when four of the project’s habitat treatments (human-made oyster reefs and plantings of eelgrass, California seablite, and rockweed, a brown macroalgae) were installed off Point Pinole.

We cover the oyster bed restoration off of San Rafael in Saving the Bay's Episode 4, Bay in the Balance.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

Planting the Edgy Bits of Giant Marsh – KneeDeep Times "With all the urgency due to [climate change and sea level rise], we need to be getting marshes up to speed now. We need habitat to mature enough to function fast."

SF Baykeeper recently sued three enterprises at the Port of Benicia on the Carquinez Strait for discharging Petroleum coke, a harmful byproduct of oil refining. Petcoke contains heavy metals such as copper, zinc, nickel arsenic and mercury.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay

SF Baykeeper Sues Water-Discharging Businesses - Agriculture On Thursday, plaintiff San Francisco Baykeeper filed suit against Amports, Inc APS West Coast, Benicia Port Terminal Company, and Valero Refining Company

Did you know that on the way to San Jose sits the bayfront town of Alviso that was merged into its sprawling neighbor in 1968? Alviso, which lies below sea level and is the only part of San Jose that touches San Francisco Bay, was once an active local port until it's far South Bay location became silted and maritime traffic stopped.

We filmed at the San Jose-Santa Clara Regional Wastewater Facility, the largest advanced sewage treatment plant in the western US. It's also the largest source of fresh water entering the South Bay.

dvd and Blu-Ray sets are available at https://savingthebay.org/holiday/. All or part of the series can be streamed at https://vimeo.com/ondemand/savingthebay.

South Bay's bayside town Alviso looks to the future Located at the bitter end of the South Bay, the town of Alviso — now a consolidated part of San Jose — has long struggled with its identity. And questions remain about how it will survive sea-level rise.