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RESOURCE REVIEW - CCMP'S NEW LOOK

For the past year and a half, over 80 volunteers from the environmental, regulatory, water agency, and business communities, plus other interested parties have caucused in meetings and hunched over keyboards, brows furrowed, frantically typing, re-writing and updating the 1993 CCMP-the Comprehensive and Conservation Management Plan-for the Estuary. As one participant put it, "The CCMP is a collaborative, consensus-based agreement about what we can do to protect and restore the Estuary, a road map for restoring the Estuary's chemical, physical, and biological health." Updates were made to seven CCMP program areas: aquatic resources management, wildlife, wetlands management, water use, pollution prevention and reduction, dredging and waterway modification, and land use/watershed management.

The new document reflects pressing issues that have surfaced since the original document was drawn up: climate change and sea level rise, emerging contaminants like PPCPs, methyl mercury and wetland restoration, the Delta's ecological crisis, the need for better riparian protection and goals, and the trash epidemic in our waterways. It also celebrates CCMP successes since the first document was written, including greater public awareness of the Estuary (in part due to increased public access), a shift to a watershed approach in dealing with the Estuary's problems, an exponential increase in volunteer activities, from adopting local creeks and growing native plants to cleaning up the coast, and achieving large-scale land acquisition and restoration goals.

On Friday, August 3, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., the Implementation Committee-40 members representing the broad Estuary community-will vote on approving the new document. Any interested members of the public are welcome. A workshop on the draft 2007 Report Card evaluating the past two years' progress on implementing the goals of the CCMP will follow. For more information, contact Marcia Brockbank: (510) 622-2325 or Mbrockbank@waterboards.ca.gov LOV

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