By Guy Span Published: June, 2004 The cost of the new Martinez Bridge has swollen to over $1 billion dollars, due to fish mitigation, weak sub-structure rock, and building material cost increases. This raised the estimates from a 2001 view, which priced the bridge at $652 million. To pay for the increased costs, its looks […]
Published: November, 2004 Pam Belchamber, the longtime director of the Vallejo Ferry Service has been suddenly and unexpectedly dismissed. City officials are mum but sources tell Bay Crossings that the contretemps concerns a contracting matter and a rankling relationship between Belchamber and Vallejo’s lame duck City Manager. The move was highly unexpected and left veterans […]
By Bill Picture Published: April, 2016 The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s top water official, Joel Beauvais, was in the Bay Area recently for a tour of the Oro Loma Sanitary District’s wastewater treatment plant in San Lorenzo. An experiment is underway there to test a new type of levee that could protect waterfront communities […]
