BC Staff Report Published: November, 2015 If you have been travelling by ferry over the last month, chances are you’ve seen some recent dredging and maintenance activities being performed at the ferry terminals in Vallejo, Larkspur and San Francisco. In Vallejo, the passenger float at the end of the gangway was removed to allow for […]
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Emergency Drought Barrier Removal Underway in Delta
BC Staff Report Published: November, 2015 In June, Bay Crossings reported that a temporary rock barrier across a Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta channel was constructed due to potentially insufficient water supplies to repel salinity in the Delta. San Rafael-based Dutra Group installed the single emergency salinity barrier across West False River and has now begun removing […]
Port of Oakland Gets EPA Grant to Retrofit Diesel Cranes
By Bill Picture Published: November, 2015 The Port of Oakland announced last month that TraPac, one of four terminal operating companies at the port, has been awarded money by the Environmental Protection Agency to upgrade cargo-handling equipment in a further effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions along the waterfront. The $277,885 grant will be used […]
Revisiting the Past in Sight and Music
By Paul Duclos Published: November, 2015 The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco are now presenting Jewel City: Art from San Francisco’s Panama-Pacific International Exposition, on view at the de Young from October 17 through January 10, 2016. Celebrating the centennial of the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition (PPIE) in San Francisco, this exhibition revisits a […]
WATERFRONT ACTIVITIES November 2015
Published: November, 2015 Nov. 1 Times Vary – Sunday Sunset Sail- Schooner Freda B, Sausalito, 415-331-0444, schoonerfredab.com Sail on San Francisco Bay on Sunday evening for a spectacular sunset sail and enjoy the many beautiful landmark sites with us from the deck of a beautiful classic schooner, including Angel Island, the Golden Gate Bridge, […]
Around the Bay in November
Holiday Lights Published: November, 2015 PIER 39 PIER 39 invites you to join some special friends from the Disneyland Resort at the annual PIER 39 Tree Lighting Celebration on Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22. They’re bringing a little bit of holiday cheer from the Happiest Place on Earth, where the 60th Diamond Celebration is […]
ON OUR COVER October 2015
Published: October, 2015 Thousands of sharks live in San Francisco Bay, with many large sharks (including great whites) visiting the deeper waters of the Bay from time to time. Yet despite these large predators poking their heads into the front of the San Francisco Bay, there has never been a recorded white shark attack inside […]
Bar Pilots Roll the Dice . . . and Lose
By Patrick Burnson Published: October, 2015 The 58 members of the San Francisco Bar Pilots command salaries in the high six figures and other compensation without peer on the Bay Area waterfront. The California State Senate came to the conclusion, however, that enough is enough for this elite cadre by withholding pay raises that would […]
Casual Relief Supervisor Dan Blythe
By Matt Larson Published: October, 2015 If you’ve biked to Sausalito or have commuted from Larkspur or San Francisco any time in the past three years, you may recognize Dan Blythe, a casual relief supervisor for Golden Gate Ferry. As a casual relief supervisor, it’s Blythe’s job to make sure the whole operation runs smoothly […]
Defending the Bay from Microplastics
By Sejal Choksi-Chugh Published: October, 2015 Tiny plastic balls too small to see, fragments of plastic bottles, plastic pellets used in manufacturing—they’re all in San Francisco Bay. It’s an invisible problem that harms swimmers and sea life, but help is on the way. In a victory for a cleaner Bay, a new law passed […]