Feb 20 2010
From the lovely gCaptain:
A federal judge has ordered a Hong Kong-based company to pay a $10 million fine after the cargo ship it operated caused a massive oil spill in San Francisco Bay.
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Illston also ordered Fleet Management Inc. to better train its officers in navigation and safety Friday.
The fine was [...]
Feb 17 2010
This just in:
New Sentencing Expected In Cosco Busan Oil Spill
Fleet Management Ltd. of Hong Kong was the operator of the Cosco Busan, responsible for hiring and training the crew, at the time the container ship struck a fender of a Bay Bridge support pier in heavy fog on Nov. 7, 2007.
More than 53,000 gallons of [...]
Jan 22 2010
This just in, from Baykeeper:
Heavy Rains Trigger Sewer System Breakdowns
Heavy storms this week have caused numerous sewage spills and treatment facility overflows that are polluting waterways and closing beaches – and reports are still coming in from across the region.
So far, 235,361 gallons have discharged from 23 sewage system overflows, along with 90 million gallons [...]
Dec 04 2009
…if you weren’t paying attention, that is. This is so goofy:
Great whites near shore more often than believed
For years, humans have thought of great white sharks wandering the sea at random, only occasionally venturing close to shore.
We were wrong.
Pacific white sharks spend months near the northern and central California coast between August and February foraging [...]
Nov 02 2009
Almost too mundane to blog:
Tanker spills oil into San Francisco Bay
A mechanical failure during the fueling of a tanker caused an oil spill Friday morning, leaving a two-mile slick south of the Bay Bridge and evoking memories of a much larger spill two years ago.
The spill was reported to the Coast Guard at 6:48 a.m. [...]
Oct 05 2009
This crossed my inbox this morning:
It’s clear: The Bay isn’t as murky
After more than a century of being murky from enough Gold Rush-era mining sediment to fill 60 Superdomes, researchers say, the Bay suddenly crossed a profound threshold 10 years ago and became much clearer.
“The conditions in the water “… changed dramatically,” said Dave Schoellhamer, [...]
Jul 15 2009
This is so cool.
The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC) hosted an open international design competition for ideas responding to sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and beyond.
The winners are here.
The last one, Evolutionary Recovery, is my fave. But you probably could have guessed that.
The problem with fabulous ideas, of course, is [...]
Jul 14 2009
November 2007, friends, is when the Cosco Busan hit the Bridge. We are just now getting our wildlife back to pre-spill levels, but it’s clear that things were really disrupted. Our blue heron is forever gone, as is our favorite harbor seal.
And in the face of that, they’re only going to give John Cota 10 [...]
Jul 08 2009
I know it’s unseemly to cackle, but
Judge Refuses 2nd SF Bay Spill Guilty Plea Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5 / AP) ? A Federal appeals court in San Francisco turned down a ship management company’s bid Monday to be shielded from a fine of up to $40 million if it is convicted of polluting the San [...]
Apr 09 2009
This in, from SF Gate:
$1.6 million fine for 2 Marin sewage spills
A Marin County sewage agency has agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine for spilling more than 3 million gallons of sewage into Richardson Bay last year, officials said Wednesday.
Son of ex-Speaker Núñez faces murder trial 04.09.09
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The Sewerage Agency of Southern Marin [...]
Apr 07 2009
This just in, from Baykeeper:
Speak Out Against Offshore Drilling on April 16
Next week, the Bay Area will host a national debate over oil, gas and energy impacts to our waterways. On Thursday, April 16, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar will hold a hearing in San Francisco to gauge public opinion on offshore oil and [...]
Feb 27 2009
Unbefreakinglievable.
Sewage spills foul San Francisco Bay over and over
SAN FRANCISCO—Last weekend, 890,000 gallons of raw sewage and stormwater spilled into San Francisco Bay from an overloaded World War II-era treatment plant. Five days earlier, a ruptured pipe released 400,000 gallons of filth into the bay.
And those were just the big spills the public heard about.
On [...]
Oct 07 2008
More loveliness in our Bay:
Water Districts Fined For Bay Sewage Spills
(I’d post the article and discuss it, but the AP would fine my socks off if they knew, so I’ll just link and hope they don’t catch me)
And from Baykeeper, Oil Spill Bills Signed Into Law by the Governor
Governor Schwarzenegger signed into law seven bills [...]
Aug 27 2008
At last, something resembling good news about Poo in the Bay:
Success in Burlingame
Baykeeper reached a successful settlement with the City of Burlingame to end the City’s sewage spills to the Bay. Burlingame – one of the worst sewage polluters in the Bay Area – has agreed to substantially improve its sewer system and end illegal [...]
Aug 16 2008
Last Wednesday, we got the opportunity to take the family out on a sweet little sundown sail on our friend Tom’s boat, s/v Tempest. Tom is a liveaboard right down the dock from us, and we’d taken him out on our boat a few times. He’s a great sailor and a fun guy to have [...]
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