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City officials said the construction work was on schedule.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The waves that brought down the end of the pier were nearly 19 feet tall. Three workers, a public restroom, and heavy equipment crashed into the ocean. None of the workers, who were assessing the section’s structural stability when it collapsed, were seriously injured.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Elliot, director of Santa Cruz Parks and Recreation, called Monday’s waves “the largest swell that we’ve seen in 30 years.” He said “the totality of the construction work,” along with the large waves and last year’s damage, all contributed to the collapse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All of the components really need to be in place for it to be as structurally sound as possible,” Elliot said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The repair work included replacing 70 pilings at the end of the wharf, and workers had completed about 20 or 30, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a Friday press conference, city officials pointed to a lawsuit from several residents under the name Don’t Morph the Wharf, saying it led to yearslong delays for parts of the Wharf Master Plan that could have strengthened the structure against storms and high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have projects that have been ready to go that could have prevented this,” City Manager Matt Huffaker said, referring to city plans from 2015 to expand, renovate and reinforce the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“From my point of view, delay is disaster,” Keeley said about the lawsuit. A spokesperson for the group did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said Friday they are confident the remainder of the wharf is structurally sound, but an assessment is underway and expected to be completed within several days. The wharf remains closed in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy machinery including a crane and a skid steer loader were lost, and need to be recovered from the sea floor before the wharf can be reopened, Huffaker said. If another large swell comes in, the waves could smash the machines into the wharf’s pilings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several beaches are closed and residents are advised to avoid the water as the huge pilings, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece, and other large debris drift in the ocean. The public restroom that was on the end of the pier floated about a half mile south and settled at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. Debris has washed up on beaches 10 miles south of the wharf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While business owners and residents are eager for a reopening timeline, city officials have said they are focused on the immediate next steps. The city is working with business owners to potentially reduce or waive rent until the wharf reopens, which officials hope is a matter of weeks, not months, Huffaker said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12019900\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12019900\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1707\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/DSCF5912-2-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf on a windy day in September 2024. \u003ccite>(Nik Altenberg/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>An uncertain future\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In the longer term, the historic pier’s future has been thrown into question. The mayor and others have questioned whether the more than 100-year-old wharf is fit to survive a changing climate with stronger ocean swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we experienced in the last couple of days — this is what we need to plan for. This was not what was planned for when the wharf was built,” Keeley said. “I personally wonder how many times the federal government or any other entity is going to pay to repair and replace this very, very old technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Keeley said it may not make sense to rebuild the part of the wharf that collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is open to the idea of rethinking the entire structure with climate change top of mind, rather than trying to preserve the wharf in its original form. Unless reimagined, Keeley said, “I don’t believe this wharf can be there for another 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Griggs, an ocean scientist and distinguished professor of Earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said he agreed. When building or rebuilding structures that are buffeted by the ocean, it is important to remember there is nothing that will last forever, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the question is, what time frame should we be considering?” Griggs said, noting the significant investment of public money often required to rebuild. “Should we plan for doing this if we know it’s only going to last 10 years?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any repairs, upgrades or redesigned structures are “a Band-Aid, and it’s the strength or the size of that Band-Aid that determines how much future wave action, sea level rise, that can withstand,” Griggs said. In the long run, “there’s absolutely nothing we can do to hold back the Pacific Ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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A spokesperson for the group did not respond to a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City officials said Friday they are confident the remainder of the wharf is structurally sound, but an assessment is underway and expected to be completed within several days. The wharf remains closed in the meantime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heavy machinery including a crane and a skid steer loader were lost, and need to be recovered from the sea floor before the wharf can be reopened, Huffaker said. If another large swell comes in, the waves could smash the machines into the wharf’s pilings, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, several beaches are closed and residents are advised to avoid the water as the huge pilings, weighing hundreds of pounds apiece, and other large debris drift in the ocean. The public restroom that was on the end of the pier floated about a half mile south and settled at the mouth of the San Lorenzo River. 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The mayor and others have questioned whether the more than 100-year-old wharf is fit to survive a changing climate with stronger ocean swells.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we experienced in the last couple of days — this is what we need to plan for. This was not what was planned for when the wharf was built,” Keeley said. “I personally wonder how many times the federal government or any other entity is going to pay to repair and replace this very, very old technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the press conference, Keeley said it may not make sense to rebuild the part of the wharf that collapsed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said he is open to the idea of rethinking the entire structure with climate change top of mind, rather than trying to preserve the wharf in its original form. Unless reimagined, Keeley said, “I don’t believe this wharf can be there for another 100 years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary Griggs, an ocean scientist and distinguished professor of Earth sciences at UC Santa Cruz, said he agreed. When building or rebuilding structures that are buffeted by the ocean, it is important to remember there is nothing that will last forever, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think the question is, what time frame should we be considering?” Griggs said, noting the significant investment of public money often required to rebuild. “Should we plan for doing this if we know it’s only going to last 10 years?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Any repairs, upgrades or redesigned structures are “a Band-Aid, and it’s the strength or the size of that Band-Aid that determines how much future wave action, sea level rise, that can withstand,” Griggs said. In the long run, “there’s absolutely nothing we can do to hold back the Pacific Ocean.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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The Department of Public Works is fielding more than 350 reports of fallen and damaged trees on city streets, and the Recreation and Parks Department estimates that up to 100 more were downed throughout its parks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Golden Gate Park and the Mission District were hit particularly hard, according to department spokespeople.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“About 50 to 100 trees fell across the whole park system, and about half of those at least were in the west end of Golden Gate Park,” said Tamara Aparton, the parks department’s communications director. “It was a really violent storm in the west end, and it knocked down a lot of really big trees.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There was some damage to the outer paddock of the park’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11495697/whats-with-the-bison-in-golden-gate-park\">beloved bison pasture\u003c/a>, but Aparton said the inner paddock remained intact, and all of the bison were safe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the Richmond District, water seeped into the gym at George Washington High School after a rooftop skylight was damaged, according to San Francisco school district spokesperson Laura Dudnick. On Monday, she said the facilities team was working to repair and clean the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018590\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018590\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241216_SFStormCleanup_GC-9-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A San Francisco Parks and Recreation worker wraps red caution tape around a tree stump by the bison paddock in Golden Gate Park in San Francisco on Dec. 16, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the other side of the city, crews have been clearing hard-hit streets and sidewalks in the Mission District. Fallen street trees broke windows, wrecked cars and landed on some buildings, and the Department of Public Works is also handling damaged fencing and pavement, spokesperson Rachel Gordon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utility infrastructure was also damaged in the storm, which had 100,000 customers without power at its peak, according to PG&E. The company did not yet have a tally of the damage on Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No injuries have been reported to either the public works or parks department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12018025 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/20241205_Tsunami-Warning_DMB_0666-1020x679.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to many downed trees in the Mission, an entire cluster near San Jose Avenue between Noe Valley and Bernal Heights came down at once, causing a road closure on Saturday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The big culprit really is wind and then saturated ground,” she said. “If the ground is really wet, there’s not a lot for the roots to grip onto, so they’re more vulnerable to damage, and [that’s] when large limbs come down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the total number of downed trees in this storm wasn’t unusually high, city officials said their cleanup would take at least a few more days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have no magic wand to make the fallen trees and the branches disappear,” Gordon told KQED. “There are real people who are going out to pick them up and move them away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said crews had been out before dawn and late into the night clearing trees. 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"content": "\u003cp>Every time \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017880/bay-area-braces-quadruple-threat-rain-wind-surf-king-tides\">waves from king tides\u003c/a> crash against San Francisco’s hard city edge like they did Friday, officials brace for flooding along the Embarcadero southeast of the Ferry Building. It’s a reminder that as baseline sea levels continue to rise, future floodwaters could inundate a vital part of the city’s transportation infrastructure: commuter rail lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city is working on two solutions to cure its bayside flooding woes. The first is a shorter-term plan to raise the shoreline and \u003ca href=\"https://propellerclubnortherncalifornia.org/wp-content/uploads/WRP017_DCRP_Propeller-Club_D1.pdf\">use deployable temporary infrastructure (PDF)\u003c/a> to block water from getting into the train system. The second would take decades: rebuilding a vulnerable stretch of San Francisco’s seawall and raising structures like the Ferry Building.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elaine Forbes, executive director of the Port of San Francisco, said king tides have worsened over the past decade. That makes the flood-resiliency work especially urgent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are seeing the impacts of climate change now,” Forbes said. “We have an immediate flood problem that we have to take care of now. We’ve been lucky, but we cannot wait much longer. Time is not on our side.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, king tides — caused by a stronger-than-normal gravitational pull when the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1955598/king-tides-are-here-why-they-happen-and-what-they-teach-us\">sun, moon and Earth align\u003c/a> — mainly cause short-term nuisance flooding. However, they foreshadow a far wetter future for the city on the bay because of sea level rise caused by human-caused climate change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018232\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018232\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-38-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“King tides are a very helpful visual representation of what our shoreline is likely to look like every single day in the not very distant future,” said Annie Kohut Frankel, manager of the California King Tides Project at the California Coastal Commission. “They are a warning more than a problem yet, but hopefully, we will listen to that warning.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Friday, that warning came in the form of bay water gushing onto the sidewalk on the Embarcadero, forcing people to walk around the waves. The king tides reached around 7.36 feet in San Francisco, according to the commission, which encourages people to \u003ca href=\"https://www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/#:~:text=The%20next%20California%20King%20Tide,December%2013%2D15%2C%202024.&text=Sign%20up%20to%20receive%20email,the%20highest%20tides%20of%20today.\">capture and submit photos of flooding\u003c/a> this weekend. But Forbes noted that seas are projected to rise several feet by the end of the century.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That means every time a king tide occurs in the not-so-distant future, the impact on the city will be compounded. Plus, Forbes said the flooding could be even worse if tides occur during a flood-inducing atmospheric river or a smaller storm like the one \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12017880/bay-area-braces-quadruple-threat-rain-wind-surf-king-tides\">bearing down on Northern California\u003c/a> this weekend with heavy rain, strong wind and high surf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018231\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-33-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Water flows onto the sidewalk during a high king tide at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“A king tide gives us an idea of what is coming in the future,” she said. “Right now, it’s infrequent flooding, but it will become intermittent to frequent flooding over time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forbes is particularly worried about the area that floods today. To the naked eye, this area several hundred feet southeast of the Ferry Building looks like a pedestrian path and road next to the bay. But underneath the paved ground is a Muni portal, where trains enter the underground system, including BART.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12018233\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12018233\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1332\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241213-PortFlood-82-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People walk along the Embarcadero during a high king tide in San Francisco on Dec. 13, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>This area is the most at-risk segment of the city’s seawall for future sea level rise. As seas rise and storms intensify, the promenade and railing could fail, and flooding could cause regular road shutdowns and damage the train system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The water would overtop and move right in and over into those tracks and down into the system,” Forbes said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley professor Kristina Hill, a leading sea level rise scientist, said San Francisco’s current seawall is “a joke” because it was built quickly out of rubble, rocks, posts and concrete during the gold rush era.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_12017880 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/11/241122-StormHitsBayArea-21-BL-1020x680.jpg']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is kind of an unusually fragile seawall for a city of this size,” she said. “There are even ships that were scuttled in it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The long-term fix from the port and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers aims to reinvent 7.5 miles of the bayside shoreline at a cost of more than $13 billion. The draft plan for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfport.com/wrp/usace\">San Francisco Waterfront Flood Study\u003c/a>, released last year by the port, includes rebuilding the seawall — which would help stop water from harming the train system — and raising structures. The final report is tentatively set for public release in early 2026.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfport.com/files/2023-04/Embarcadero%20Early%20Projects_Downtown%20Coastal%20Resilience_2023Q1_Update.pdf\"> Downtown Coastal Resilience Project\u003c/a> could potentially raise the shoreline and put in new protective railings and deployable structures to block water at a cost of more than $250 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Next year, the port will select a consultant to complete the concept and detailed design. Forbes said construction could start as soon as 2028, and exact renderings of what the solution could look like are yet to be created.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If we do not tackle it early, we will have serious impacts on our transit systems, and that is not something we can allow,” Forbes said. “It’s critical to get the improvements in soon. We can’t wait for the big dig and allow this intermittent flooding to continue to be a risk to the city.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>In a first for the Bay Area, the region has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1994406/landmark-bay-area-regional-plan-to-combat-sea-level-rise-unveiled\">a finalized plan to protect the more than 400 miles of bayshore\u003c/a> from the chaos that sea level rise could unleash — waterlogged freeways, submerged neighborhoods, inundated airports and sunken train lines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, for the effort to succeed, more than 50 cities and counties that ring the San Francisco Bay need to get on board and follow the guidance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The plan will require more effort from the localities because more effort is required if we’re going to survive this and avoid major damage,” said Zachary Wasserman, chair of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission. “We’re all going to have to make efforts to address this very real threat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”[aside postID=news_12009607 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/10/240214-CoastalCommission-50-BL_qed-1020x680.jpg']Up until the vote, regulators tweaked amendments on how cities could comply with the guidelines and not negatively impact the environment. BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. Solutions could include human-made or natural barriers to keep water out and relocating built infrastructure away from the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency split the new plan into eight topic areas, including ecosystem health and transit to development.[aside postID=science_1994596 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2024/10/20241002_PajaroLeveeGroundbreak_GC-32-1020x680.jpg']When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The commission voted unanimously to approve the \u003ca href=\"https://www.bayadapt.org/regional-shoreline-adaptation-plan/\">Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan\u003c/a> Thursday evening, and it was quickly celebrated by state officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Local agencies in the bay will now have access to the latest science and best practices they need to develop their own plans to adapt to rising sea levels,” Wade Crowfoot, California’s Natural Resources secretary, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12016815\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12016815\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/170111_KingTide_bhs10-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portions of San Francisco’s Embarcadero flood during a king tide on Jan. 11, 2017. \u003ccite>(Brittany Hosea-Small/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Bay accounts for a third of California’s coastline, and state regulators expect it to experience “two-thirds of the state’s total economic damage from sea-level rise.” They estimate it will cost \u003ca href=\"https://mtc.ca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2023-07/SLR_Framework_Final_Report.pdf\">$110 billion to construct all the seawalls, levees, marshes and other adaptation projects (PDF)\u003c/a> to protect the 400 miles of bay shoreline. But they believe it would cost the region far more — $230 billion — if it did nothing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1880s, the Pacific Ocean has risen by about 8 inches along the West Coast, but state scientists predict more than a foot of bay rise by 2050 and more than 6 feet by the end of the century in the worst-case scenario.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Bay Area is home to giant tech companies, major highways, the majority of the state’s wetlands, international airports and nearly 8 million people, but so far its planning for sea level rise has been governed by a patchwork of rules and overseen by numerous agencies and localities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly 200 pages of new guidance documents are meant to spur big cities like San Francisco and small towns like Tiburon on Richardson Bay to address future sea level rise by 2034. \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1984830/california-mandates-coastal-cities-plan-for-future-sea-level-rise\">SB 272\u003c/a>, which California passed into law last year, requires all coastal jurisdictions to create sea level rise plans based on the best available science. But the law stops short of punishing cities that don’t comply.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017033\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017033\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_008_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindy Lowe, the resilience program director at the Port of San Francisco, points out and explains the upcoming changes proposed outside of the Ferry Building to address sea level rise in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups think the guidelines don’t go far enough to protect their interests, and business groups said the plan missed an opportunity to outline how private equity could help meet the region’s goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some environmental advocates, including the Sierra Club’s San Francisco Bay Chapter, pushed over the last few weeks to add teeth to the guidelines and include language to enforce the plan rather than just provide direction. More than 40 local climate and environmental groups issued a statement \u003ca href=\"https://www.sierraclub.org/sf-bay-alive/joint-statement-bcdc-urging-support-robust-rsap\">urging the state agency to “strengthen the plan,”\u003c/a> and 650 residents signed a petition calling for the same. Regulators debated whether to alter the guidelines but ultimately changed very little.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Arthur Feinstein, who chairs the Sierra Club’s Coordinated Bay Alive Committee, said he’s disappointed that the new plan “weakened some standards” around preserving undeveloped shoreline lands and nature-based sea level rise adaptation strategies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They could have gone back and said that you must \u003cem>apply\u003c/em> these standards instead of you must \u003cem>consider\u003c/em> these standards,” Feinstein said. “That alone would change how it’s going to be implemented because it’s so much more forceful.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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BCDC Commissioner Andrew Gunther, who represents the Regional Water Quality Control Board, called it a “generational scale accomplishment” while acknowledging that he doesn’t “expect this document to be perfect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In several places, the commission changed wording to encourage the use of nature-based solutions and how adaptation strategies that could significantly affect resources — plans that could pollute the bay, disrupt contaminated sites or reduce surface water movement — should “to the greatest extent feasible be avoided.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>State regulators are attempting to set a unified path for the entire Bay Area with what they describe as “strong guidance” and “carrots.” The plan includes incentives for cities that follow the guidelines by putting them at the top of the list for project funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The stick is rising sea levels,” Wasserman said, adding that enforcement is outside BCDC’s jurisdiction set by the Legislature. He said advocates need to bring concerns to their elected officials if they want strong enforcement or mandates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017035\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017035\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/IMG_8912_Edit_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The wetlands of Area 4 in Newark, Alameda County, on Aug. 13, 2021. The area has been slated for residential development, but the area’s conservationists say that climate change’s rising sea levels could flood those homes over the next several decades. \u003ccite>(Joyce Tsai/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>At least one city official expressed concern that the regional plan is too complex. Danielle Mieler, the city of Alameda’s sustainability and resilience manager, said she is worried “some of the requirements are beyond what is reasonable or necessary for cities to develop a robust shoreline adaptation plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a letter to BCDC, five business groups, including the Bay Area Council, called the plan a major milestone for the Bay Area and thanked the state agency for providing “flexibility for local jurisdictions” by “removing prescriptive ‘must’ language” from the guidance so localities “can tailor their adaptation strategies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the groups wrote they “remain anxious about the plan’s approach to development.” They also noted that the plan doesn’t “leverage private capital,” which they call a “missed opportunity” to fund regional change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We need more than first steps; we need big, urgent leaps to protect the region and solve our $110 billion shoreline resilience price tag, which can’t be done without historic private sector investments in our shoreline,” Adrian Covert, senior vice president of public policy for the Bay Area Council, said in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12017037\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12017037\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/SeaLevel_005_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign stating ‘slippery when wet subject to flooding and water surge’ at the Embarcadero’s seawall between the bustling city and water in San Francisco, on May 1, 2018. \u003ccite>(Lauren Hanussak/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Wasserman pushed back on this idea and said the regional plan “is not the right place to do that.” He said the agency is pursuing a range of ways to encourage private financing and a separate study could address private equity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The sprawling guidelines are meant to shepherd cities and counties as they create thorough plans for protecting shorelines. Solutions could include human-made or natural barriers to keep water out and relocating built infrastructure away from the water’s edge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The agency split the new plan into eight topic areas, including ecosystem health and transit to development.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>When cities or counties submit developmental plans, BCDC asks for vulnerability assessments for four different sea level rise scenarios ranging from just under a foot up to 6.6 feet. Each assessment should address coastal flood hazards, including tidal inundation and storm surge from a 100-year storm.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the first time BCDC is requesting all local plans to consider how sea level rise will push up groundwater into communities while also examining how flooding could inundate contaminated sites. The staff made this decision after Bay Area scientists highlighted in recent years how \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11938215/new-study-finds-rising-groundwater-is-a-major-bay-area-flooding-risk\">rising groundwater will affect communities decades before seas lap over shorelines\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We understand that it’s going to impact the way that people adapt, and we’re asking them to identify what’s vulnerable in their communities,” said Dana Brechwald, assistant planning director for climate adaptation with BCDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But cities won’t have to go at planning alone; Brechwald said the agency is gearing up for an influx of requests for help. BCDC is working with the Ocean Protection Council for grants of up to $1.5 million and said the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12012256/californias-10-billion-climate-bond-ahead-with-a-strong-lead\">recently passed state climate bond\u003c/a> could “give another influx of money into the grant program.” The noncompetitive grant program also includes technical assistance to help communities with fewer resources access funding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really first come, first serve as long as you meet the requirements, and the technical assistance program is designed to help cities get to that point,” Brechwald said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for which areas need the work first, Brechwald said a BCDC analysis found hot spots in San Rafael, Corte Madera, Napa, Martinez, Suisun City, Oakland, San Francisco, San José, Mountain View, Redwood City and East Palo Alto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has been talking about immigration, border security and government efficiency.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in California farm country, his comments about water are also getting top attention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Golden State grows three-quarters of the country’s fruits and nuts and more than a third of its vegetables, largely thanks to a complex network of dams and canals that funnel water to the state’s fertile Central Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, farmers have faced more limits on how much water they can access from this network because of environmental concerns, as well as on how much groundwater they can pump after years of overuse and drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, farmers are hoping the second Trump administration will ensure more stable water flows to their fields from the federally managed Central Valley Project and a plan for future water supplies. Trump recently posted on his Truth Social platform a criticism of the “rerouting of MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER A DAY FROM THE NORTH OUT INTO THE PACIFIC OCEAN, rather than using it, free of charge, for the towns, cities, & farms dotted all throughout California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label='Related Coverage' tag='farming']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is the number one issue,” said Jason Phillips, chief executive of the Friant Water Authority, which represents more than a dozen irrigation districts serving a large swath of the crop-rich valley. “You only need labor, and you only need the products and the equipment and everything else to grow food if you have water.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California relies on water supplies from the Central Valley Project and the state-run State Water Project. The federal project provides 5 million acre-feet of water to farms each year and 600,000 acre-feet to cities, as well as water to maintain water quality in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which provides critical habitat to fish and wildlife.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During the prior Trump administration, government officials issued rules to allow for a greater flow of water to California farms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental groups blasted the move. The Biden administration pushed back on those decisions and has been working on new rules aimed at balancing farming with protections for endangered wildlife such as the delta smelt, a tiny fish that is an indicator of the health of California’s waterways, and Chinook salmon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In recent years, California farmers said federal water allocations have been more limited than they feel is necessary after two years of ample rain boosted the state’s reservoirs. The state previously grappled with a yearslong drought that in 2022 saw the driest January-to-March period in at least a century, with scientists saying weather whiplash will likely become more common as the planet warms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996553\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11996553 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/20240604_CaliforniaForeverFarms_GC-24_qed-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rows of olive trees at Soul Food Farm in Vacaville on June 4, 2024. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That is a big concern of environmentalists and commercial fishermen, who want to see less water diverted to agriculture and more flowing to the delta. Salmon fishing has been banned off the California coast for the past two years because of dwindling stocks, and critics say Trump’s prior decisions to move water away from salmon-spawning areas are to blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They delivered all the cold water behind Shasta Dam. It literally cooked the baby salmon before they were hatched,” said Barry Nelson, policy advisor to the Golden State Salmon Association, a nonprofit focused on restoring California salmon. “Math is a brutal master, and we’ve hit physical limits on the amount of water we can take from the Bay delta, and the sign of that is the collapse of the ecosystem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom, a long-time Trump critic, recently called on California lawmakers to gear up ahead of another Trump presidency to safeguard the state’s progressive policies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Environmental advocates, however, contend that Newsom has not done enough to improve the situation in the delta for fish and wildlife. During Trump’s prior administration, Newsom opposed his rules for water flows, filing a legal challenge, but since then put forth his own rules, which Jon Rosenfield, San Francisco Baykeeper’s science director, said “were never that much different.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Competing demands on California’s water have led to numerous battles over who gets how much. Advocates for fishermen, environmental interests and farmers all say more must be done to shore up future water supplies. But what that looks like depends on who is asked, with proposed solutions spanning from more conservation to expanding water storage to technological upgrades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Aubrey Bettencourt, who oversaw the Department of Interior water policy during the prior Trump administration, said she would like to see the system updated to respond to swings in climate rather than setting water releases based on the calendar. One of the issues, she said, is not how much water you get but knowing how much water you will get.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It makes it very hard to plan not just as a farmer but as a city manager,” she said. “I would expect an emphasis on restoring operational certainty.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incoming Trump administration has discussed a series of economic policies that could also affect agriculture, including tariffs that could wind up affecting some exports and push up input costs for growers, according to a recent Rabobank report.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But when it comes to water, many farmers in California are hopeful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Daniel Errotabere, a third-generation farmer and previous Westlands Water District president whose family grows tomatoes, garlic and almonds, is among them. As California ramps up limits on groundwater pumping, it is even more important to ensure a stable flow of surface water to grow the food the country is counting on, he said. Farmers have had to fallow fields and often don’t plant as much as they could because of water uncertainty, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If electricity was delivered this way, there’d be a revolt,” Errotabere said. “This is not any way to operate resources.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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