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Bay Area Beaches Get Clean Report Cards For 2012
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Bacteria levels at beaches all over the Bay Area have improved dramatically since last year, so beach goers can enjoy the shore without worry this summer, environmentalists said...
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New Tahoe Rules To Limit Discharges, Boost Clarity
RENO (CBS/AP) — State and federal environmental regulators at Lake Tahoe are moving ahead with another new round of rules and strategies to protect the clarity of the mountain lake’s famed azure...
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Santa Cruz’s Cowell Beach Ranks Top On ‘Beach Bummer’ Most Polluted List
SANTA CRUZ (CBS SF) — A stretch of beach near the wharf in Santa Cruz has the dubious distinction of having the worst water quality on the West Coast, according to a new report. The Santa Cruz Sentinel...
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1 Hurt In ‘Dramatic’ San Jose Crash When Car Smashes Into Bridge, Lands In...
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — A car that went down a creek in San Jose Sunday morning has been removed from the scene and a person injured in the crash was taken to a trauma center, a fire captain said....
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Central Valley Water District Strikes Deal With Feds Over Contaminated...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — A California water district that is the country’s largest says it has reached a deal with the federal government in a decades-long dispute over thousands of acres of...
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Coast Guard Contains Spill From Sunken Boat Leaking Diesel Fuel Into Oyster...
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The United States Coast Guard is trying to locate and notify the owner of a boat found submerged and leaking diesel fuel in a South San Francisco marina early Saturday...
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California Orders 33 Oil Wells Shut For Dumping Waste Fluid Into Protected...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — California is shutting down another 33 oilfield wells that state officials improperly permitted to inject into federally-protected water supplies. The shutdowns were effective...
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Almost 1 Million Gallons Of Sewage Spilled Into San Francisco Bay
SAN JOSE (CBS/AP) — An employee released 952,000 gallons of partially treated sewage — enough to fill 50 backyard swimming pools — by accident into the San Francisco Bay but the spill didn’t cause any...
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State, Federal Agencies Respond To Sunken Barge Leaking Fuel Into Bay
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Divers Saturday checked to see whether fuel was leaking again from a barge that capsized early Friday morning in San Francisco Bay south of the Bay Bridge. Sunken barge on San...
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Air District Issues Nuisance Violations For Oil Sheen In San Pablo Bay Last Year
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has issued public nuisance violations against the Phillips 66 Refinery in Rodeo and the Yamuna Sprint oil tanker regarding an...
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Health Officials Warn of Blue-Green Algae – Hazardous To People, Pets
NAPA (CBS SF) — Napa Valley health officials are urging people planning to go swimming or boating to avoid close contact with lakes and other bodies of water containing blue-green algae. “Be aware of...
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2 East Bay Lakes, Closed By Toxic Algae, Reopened
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Two Alameda County lakes that were closed to swimmers because of the presence of blue-green toxins will reopen on Saturday, East Bay Regional Parks District officials said. Lake...
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High Lead Levels Found In Drinking Water At Three San Francisco Schools
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Water taps at three San Francisco schools have been turned off after samples were found to contain lead levels above federal safety standards, according to school district...
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Crews Clear Vallejo Reservoir System of Sediment, Say Water Is Safe to Drink
VALLEJO (CBS SF) — City crews have flushed the system impacted by sediment in the water of Vallejo’s Swanzy Reservoir affecting about 1,000 households, city officials said Sunday afternoon. Earlier,...
View ArticleSan Francisco Resident Battles Plan To Axe Trees For Water Treatment Project
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A plan to upgrade a water treatment facility in San Francisco will include removing almost two dozen large, healthy trees from the industrial neighborhood, a proposal that has...
View ArticleHuge Boom Towed Out Golden Gate To Cleanup Great Pacific Trash Patch
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Engineers set to sea Saturday to deploy a trash collection device to corral plastic litter floating between California and Hawaii in an attempt to clean up the world’s largest...
View ArticleStolen E-Scooters in San Jose Being Dumped Into Guadalupe River
SAN JOSE (KPIX) — A San Jose man, known as “the river watchdog,” said Thursday he has pulled nearly two dozen electric scooters from the Guadalupe River in just two days. Roger Castillo said that...
View ArticleMonterey Mushrooms Agrees To Pay Santa Clara’s Largest Water Pollution Lawsuit
SAN JOSE (KPIX 5) — The country’s biggest mushroom grower, located in the Bay Area, just agreed to pay $2.24 million in what has become Santa Clara’s largest water pollution lawsuit. In video provided...
View ArticleSonoma Winery Blending Tank Springs A Leak; Thousands Of Gallons Flow Into...
HEALDSBURG (CBS SF/AP) — Crews at the Rodney Strong Winery were cleaning up a massive wine spill Thursday after a blending tank sprang a leak and dumped more than 97,000 gallons of red wine onto the...
View ArticleRolling Power Outage Triggers Oakland Estuary Sewage Spill: 50,000 Gallons...
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Boaters were being warned Saturday to stay away from the Oakland Estuary after an estimated 50,000 gallons of raw sewage spilled during a power outage Friday night at the East Bay...
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