San Leandro Bay/Oakland-Alameda Estuary Adaptation Working Group

The Community Partners Request for Proposals (RFP) has closed and the City of Alameda, on behalf of the Working Group, selected two different community partner teams: Greenbelt Alliance with Hood Planning Group, Ninth Root, REAP Climate Center and Sogorea Te' Land Trust, and Community Action for Sustainable Alameda.

The Technical Consultant Request for Proposals (RFP) has closed and the City of Alameda, on behalf of the Working Group, selected the consultant team led by CMG Landscape Architecture.

The Working Group meets quarterly on the second Wednesday of the month. To be added to the meeting invite, email dmieler@alamedaca.gov.

Next meeting: December 13, 2023 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.

September 13, 2023

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 200KB)
• Rematriation, and Protecting the Sacred as Indigenous Women’s Decolonial Work(PDF, 20MB), Corrina Gould, Tribal Chair for the Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation
• Adaptation Strategies from an Air Quality and Community Health Perspective for the I-880 Corridor and Oakland/Alameda Estuary Area(PDF, 8MB) , David Ralston, BAAQMD

June 21, 2023

• Meeting Notes
  (PDF, 221KB)
• Meeting Packet(PDF, 26MB)

April 19, 2023

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 496KB)
• Working Group Updates presentation(PDF, 732KB)
• Shallow groundwater response to sea level rise for Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties presentation(PDF, 2MB), Ellen Plane, SFEI and Kris May, Pathways Climate Institute

February 15, 2023

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 190KB)
• Working Group Updates presentation(PDF, 927KB)
• Regulatory Strategies: Climate Change Impacts on Contaminated Sites and Cleanup(PDF, 2MB) , Lisa Horowitz-McCann, SF Bay Water Board

September 14, 2022

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 226KB)
• Working Group Updates presentation(PDF, 2MB)
• Estuary Blueprint, SFEP (2022)
• Estuary Blueprint presentation(PDF, 8MB), Darcie Luce, SFEP
• Strategic Shallow Water Placement Pilot Project presentation(PDF, 7MB), Julie Beagle, USACE
  

June 8, 2022

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 206KB)
• Working Group updates(PDF, 2MB)
• OLU planning efforts around SF Bay presentation(PDF, 1MB), Jeremy Lowe, SFEI
• San Leandro Bay Adaptation Pathways presentation(PDF, 9MB), Ellen Plane, SFEI
• Identifying and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation in the SF Bay(PDF, 3MB), Moser and Ekstrom (2012)
• Ecotone levees and wildlife connectivity: A technical update to the Adaptation Atlas(PDF, 15MB), SFEI (2021)
• San Leandro OLU Adaptation Pathways(PDF, 15MB), SFEI (2022)

March 9, 2022

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 134KB)
• Living Shorelines in San Francisco Bay presentation(PDF, 25MB), Marilyn Latta, State Coastal Conservancy

December 8, 2021

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 124KB)
• HASPA Organization presentation(PDF, 1MB) , Erik Pearson, City of Hayward
• OneShoreline Organization presentation(PDF, 5MB) , Len Matterman, OneShoreline

September 8, 2021

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 142KB)
• History of San Leandro Bay and Future Opportunities presentation(PDF, 9MB), Professor Kristina Hill, UC Berkeley
• Operational Landscape Unit Overview presentation(PDF, 2MB) , Jeremy Lowe, SFEI

June 16, 2021

• Meeting Notes
• Overview Presentation, Dana Brechwald, BCDC

Alameda County

Alameda County Flood Control District

Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District

BART

Baykeeper

Brower Dellums Institute for Sustainable Policy Studies

California State Coastal Conservancy

Caltrans

Capital Corridor

City of Alameda

City of Oakland

City of San Leandro

Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda (CASA)

East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)

East Bay Regional Parks District

East Oakland Collective

East Oakland Neighborhood Initiative (EONI)

Greenbelt Alliance

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

Port of Oakland/Oakland International Airport

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

San Francisco Bay Trail/Association of Bay Area Governments

San Francisco Estuary Institute (SFEI)

San Francisco Estuary Partnership (SFEP)

San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board

Sierra Club

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust/Lisjan Nation

UC Berkeley

US Army Corps of Engineers

US Coast Guard

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

1. Sub-regional Long-term Adaptation Plan

2a. Oakland-Alameda Estuary Adaptation Project

2b. Estuary Park Renovation and Expansion Project

3a-b. Bay Farm Island Adaptation Project

4. Caltrans Doolittle Drive/SR-61 Sea Level Rise Adaptation Project

5. Port of Oakland Vulnerability Assessment and Plan

6. De-Pave Park Master Plan

7. San Leandro Creek Trail Restoration Project

8. East Bay Regional Park District SF Bay Trail Gap Closure

Alameda County

• San Leandro Creek Trail Restoration Project
  

Bay Conservation Development Commission (BCDC)

• Bay Adapt (2021)
• ART Bay Area (2020)
• ART Oakland/Alameda (2016)
• ART East Bay Regional Park District (2014)
• Bay Area Transportation Climate Resilience – Bay Bridge Touchdown, Oakland Coliseum (2014)
• Capital Corridor Passenger Rail (2013)
• Alameda County ART (2013)

Caltrans

• SR 61 pavement preservation project on Doolittle Drive
  

City of Alameda

• Climate Action and Resiliency Plan
• Climate Adaptation and Hazard Mitigation Plan
• The Response of the Shallow Groundwater Layer and Contaminants to Sea Level Rise(PDF, 30MB)

City of Oakland

• Downtown Oakland Specific Plan
• Estuary Park Project
  

City of San Leandro

• Treatment Wetland Project
• Shoreline Development Project

East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD)

• SF Bay Trail Risk Assessment and Adaptation Prioritization Plan
• Encinal Beach Dune Restoration Project
• Managing Shoreline Parks in the Face of Climate Change

East Oakland Collective

• Neighborhood and Transportation Planning
• Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy
  

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

• Climate Change and Extreme Weather Adaptation Options for Transportation Assets in the Bay Area Pilot Project (2014)

Our Coast Our Future

• Sea level rise maps with groundwater layer

Resilient by Design

• The Estuary Commons

San Francisco Estuary Institute

• Shallow Groundwater Response to Sea Level Rise: Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo Counties (2022)
• San Leandro OLU Adaptation Pathways(PDF, 15MB) (2022)(PDF, 15MB)
• Ecotone levees and wildlife connectivity: A technical update to the Adaptation Atlas(PDF, 15MB) (2021)
• Shoreline Adaptation Atlas (2019)

San Francisco Estuary Partnership

• Estuary Blueprint (2022)
  

West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

• Featured Work
• Oakland Shoreline Leadership Academy

Governance and Funding

• Four Key Actions to Solve for Coastal Flooding and Sea Level Rise in the Bay Area: A Governance Proposal
• Bridging the Gap: Funding Sea Level Rise Adaptation in the Bay Area
• Identifying and overcoming barriers to climate change adaptation in the SF Bay(PDF, 3MB), Moser and Ekstrom (2012)

CalEnviroScreen 4.0

Community vulnerability to current and future flooding, BCDC Adapting to Rising Tides

Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer, BCDC Adapting to Rising Tides

Depth to Groundwater: Current Conditions, Pathways Climate Institute and San Francisco Estuary Institute

Sea-Level Rise and Shallow Groundwater: Future Conditions, Pathways Climate Institute and San Francisco Estuary Institute

Community Disaster Resilience Zone, FEMA

National Risk Index, FEMA

MTC/ABAG Hazards Viewer Map

• FEMA Flood Hazard
• Earthquake Shaking
• Earthquake Liquefaction
• Tsunami Evacuation Zones

The Charter was adopted by the Working Group on September 14, 2022 and can be found here(PDF, 198KB) .