Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee

• Interview with Corinna Gould, Sogorea Te' Land Trust (October 2024)
• Existing Conditions Report(PDF, 22MB) (February 2024)
• Sea Level Rise Criteria (January 2024)
• Projects Planning Principles
• Projects Team Charter(PDF, 433KB)
• Projects Work Plan(PDF, 148KB)
• Projects Schedule

The City of Alameda, on behalf of OAAC, issued the Community Partners Request for Proposals (RFP) and 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 City of Alameda, on behalf of OAAC, issued the Technical Consultant Request for Proposals (RFP) and selected the consultant team led by CMG Landscape Architecture.

June 11, 2025 (Quarterly OAAC Meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 166KB)
• SF Bay Area Climate Assessment Presentation(PDF, 707KB)
• OAAC Adapt Projects Update(PDF, 20MB)
• Invasive Spartina Project Presentation(PDF, 25MB)

March 12, 2025 (Quarterly OAAC Meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 146KB)
• OAAC Adapt Projects Update(PDF, 9MB)
• Sacred Spaced Project Presentation(PDF, 30MB)
• Community Greening and Resilience | Oakland DAG Neighborhood Presentation(PDF, 7MB)
• Wild Oyster Project Presentation(PDF, 21MB)

January 22, 2025 (Commission on People with Disabilities)

• Estuary and Bay Farm Adaptation Projects Draft Design Concepts Presentation(PDF, 8MB)
• Staff Report

January 21, 2025 (City Council Concept Designs Endorsement)

• Estuary and Bay Farm Adaptation Projects Design Concepts Presentation(PDF, 8MB)
• Staff Report
• Recording (starts at 14:20)

December 16, 2024 (Planning Board)

• Presentation(PDF, 13MB)
• Staff Report
• Recording (starts at 1:04:35)

December 11, 2024 (Quarterly OAAC meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 185KB)
• Estuary and Bay Farm Adaptation Projects Draft Design Presentation(PDF, 7MB)
• Subregional Adaptation Planning Presentation(PDF, 289KB)
• Bayshore Urbanism Presentation(PPTX, 4MB)

December 5, 2024, at 5:30pm Virtually (Community Workshop)

• Oakland-Alameda Estuary Draft Concept Designs Workshop- Presentation (English)(PDF, 20MB), Presentation (Spanish)(PDF, 23MB), survey results(PDF, 170KB), and video recording

December 4, 2024 (Community Workshop)

• Bay Farm Island Draft Concept Designs Workshop- Presentation(PDF, 30MB), survey results(PDF, 170KB), and video recording

November 20, 2024 (Transportation Commission)

• Presentation(PDF, 5MB)
• Staff Report
• Recording (starts at 2:37:49)

August 2024 (Community Workshops)

• Project Introductions(PDF, 3MB)
• Climate Science and Adaptation Pathways(PDF, 4MB)
• Existing Conditions: Estuary Project(PDF, 15MB)
• Existing Conditions: Bay Farm Island Project(PDF, 30MB)
• Conceptual Adaptation Strategies: Estuary Project(PDF, 6MB)
• Conceptual Adaptation Strategies: Bay Farm Island Project(PDF, 5MB)

May 20, 2024 (Community Workshop)

• Presentation(PDF, 19MB)
• Recording

March 20, 2024 (Quarterly OAAC Meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 143KB)
• Adaptation Updates Presentation(PDF, 3MB)
• OAAC Planning Principles(PDF, 129KB)
• Nature Based Solutions Project Overview(PDF, 949KB)
• Presentation of Draft Project Reaches(PDF, 205KB)
• Draft Map of Project Reaches(PDF, 506KB)

January 11, 2024 King Tides Site Walk (Quarterly Meeting)

• OAAC King Tides Site Walk Presentation(PDF, 19MB)
• OAAC Site Walk Maps Handout(PDF, 5MB)

December 13, 2023 (Quarterly Meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 180KB)
• Sea Changes on the Alameda-Oakland Waterfront, 1857-Present(PDF, 8MB), Mitchell Schwarzer, Professor Emeritus CCA and author of "Hella Town"
• MTC Bay Trail Gap Closure Implementation Plan(PDF, 4MB), Lily Brown, BayTrail/MTC

September 13, 2023 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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 (Quarterly Meeting)

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

April 19, 2023 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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 (Quarterly Meeting)

• Meeting Notes(PDF, 206KB)
• Working Group updates(PDF, 2MB)
• OLU planning efforts around SF Bay presentation(PDF, 1MB), Jeremy Lowe, SFEI
• San Leandro 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 Adaptation Pathways(PDF, 15MB), SFEI (2022)

March 9, 2022 (Quarterly Meeting)

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

December 8, 2021 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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 (Quarterly Meeting)

• 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
• Organizational Structure presentation(PDF, 403KB)

June 16, 2021 (Quarterly Meeting)

• Meeting Notes
• Overview Presentation, Dana Brechwald, BCDC

Alameda County

Alameda County Flood Control District (Steering Committee)

Alameda County Mosquito Abatement District

BART

Brower Dellums Institute for Sustainable Policy Studies

California State Coastal Conservancy

Caltrans (Steering Committee)

Capital Corridor

City of Alameda (Steering Committee)

City of Oakland (Steering Committee)

City of San Leandro

Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda (CASA) (Community Partner)

Community of Harbor Bay Isle Owners’ Association

East Bay Municipal Utility District (EBMUD)

East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) (Steering Committee)

Greenbelt Alliance (Community Partner)

Golden Gate Bird Alliance

Hood Planning Group (Community Partner)

Metropolitan Transportation Commission (MTC)

Ninth Root (Community Partner)

Port of Oakland/Oakland International Airport (Steering Committee)

REAP Climate Center (Community Partner)

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC)

San Francisco Bay Keepers

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 (Steering Committee)

Sierra Club

Sogorea Te’ Land Trust/Lisjan Nation (Community Partner)

SPUR

UC Berkeley

US Army Corps of Engineers

US Coast Guard 

Two Workshops Daylight Alameda-Oakland Shore Solutions, Knee Deep Times - December 18, 2024

Vulnerable Shoreline Communities Plan for Sea Level Rise, Alameda Post - August 16, 2024

Sea Level Rise is (Probably) Coming to Alameda, Alameda Post - May 28, 2024

Teaming Up to Tackle East Bay Wet Spots, Knee Deep Times - March 14, 2024

State of the City Address, City of Alameda. 16-minute mark. - February 29, 2024

City to Apply for $50 Million FEMA Flood Protection Grant, Alameda Post - February 9, 2024

California tops FEMA’s new list of areas vulnerable to weather disasters. What does it mean for the Bay Area?(PDF, 79KB), East Bay Times - September 19, 2023

Crunching the Adaptation Numbers – Not Peanuts, Knee Deep Times - July 27, 2023

30 East Bay Partners Gel on Adaptation Path, Knee Deep Times - July 19, 2022 

1. Sub-regional 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

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

Who We Are

The Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee (OAAC) is a coalition of shoreline communities and stakeholders working to co-create a coordinated and inclusive future-looking action plan and sub-regional organizational structure to accelerate sea level rise adaptation, protect and restore water quality, recreation and habitat, and promote community resilience.

The Committee is organized around the SFEI San Leandro OLU, which stretches from the Bay Bridge touchdown in the north to Oyster Bay in the south, and includes jurisdictions, agencies and community based organizations that have an interest in the Oakland-Alameda shoreline, as well as regional, state and federal collaborators.

Our shoreline is vulnerable to coastal inundation and rising groundwater and contamination as a result of rising sea levels and liquefaction in earthquakes. These climate induced hazards will put critical infrastructure at risk, damage habitat, and further burden already vulnerable communities. Our goal is to create an inclusive, transformative, and equitable climate-ready community along the Oakland-Alameda shoreline.

Mission Statement

The Committee coordinates flood and adaptation projects to protect and restore water quality, habitat, recreation and adjacent community vitality.

Community engagement will help the Project Partners better understand the high priority needs of community members and will help refine the Committee preliminary objectives, which act as guiding principles that were developed by the Committee in 2022.

Preliminary Objectives – Guiding Principles

1. Coordinate efforts

   • Help support one another to expedite development of critical adaptation projects
   • Offer economies of scale and integrate each agencies’ interests
   • Improve overall health of the estuary

2. Maximize opportunity

   • Maximize funding opportunities
   • Share data and information
   • Be aware of other projects in the OLU

3. Better outcomes for the Bay and communities

   • Identify opportunities for restoration and habitat protection and nature-based solutions
   • Consider place-based sediment management strategies
   • Identify opportunities to improve recreational access to the shoreline and air quality
   • Protect residents and vulnerable communities living on or near the shoreline so enhancements to the shoreline benefits those communities and don’t contribute to gentrification and displacement pressures
   • Projects should contribute to economic opportunities for local businesses and community members and improve those communities that are impacted by climate change, lack of infrastructure and disinvestment
   • Advocate for training and skill development to support underserved communities and investigate institutional barriers to hiring local residents and small local minority-owned businesses

4. Be adaptation leaders

   • Serve as an example for how to do sub-regional work and advance our collective agendas

5. Formalize OAAC's organizational structure

Project Partners

The Project Partners are the core team overseeing developing of the adaptation projects, and are listed below. 

• Steering Committee:

  • City of Alameda
  • Caltrans
  • City of Oakland
  • CASA (also Community Partner)
  • Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation/Sogorea Té Land Trust (also Community Partner)
  • East Bay Regional Park District
  • Greenbelt Alliance (also Community Partner)
  • Hood Planning Group (also Community Partner)
  • Port of Oakland
  • San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board
  • West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

• Community Partners:

  • CASA
  • Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation/Sogorea Té Land Trust
  • Greenbelt Alliance
  • Hood Planning Group
  • Ninth Root
  • REAP Climate Center with Climate Fellows

• Scientific Advisor: San Francisco Estuary Institute

• Consultant Team:

  • CMG Landscape Architecture
  • Pathways Climate Institute
  • Moffatt & Nichol
  • NHA Advisors
  • Schaaf & Wheeler Consulting Civil Engineers
  • ESA
  • Earth Mechanics, Inc.