Lead Department: Public Works Project Type: Sea Level Rise Adaptation Project Summary:
CIP No.: C71400
Project Description:
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Results from 2021‐2023:
Fund FY 23‐24
Future Years $540,000
$300,000
Total 2023‐25 $840,000
National Fish and Wildlife
Foundation Grant
San Francisco Estuary
Partnership Grant
Project Funding
Project Description
LONG‐TERM ADAPTATION PLAN
Develop a Long‐term Adaptation Plan for the San Leandro Operational Landscape Unit (Bay Bridge touchdown to Oyster Bay)
This project funds the development of a Long‐term Adaptation Plan in coordination with the San Leandro Bay/Oakland‐Alameda Estuary Adaptation Working Group, and includes financial support for Community‐ based Organizations (CBOs) and a Scientific Advisor.
The Working Group is a coalition of shoreline communities working to coordinate flood and adaptation projects, and to protect and restore water and air quality, habitat and community resilience. The Working Group is organized around the San Leandro operational landscape unit (OLU) as defined in the SFEI San Francisco Bay Shoreline Adaptation Atlas, which stretches from the Bay Bridge touchdown to Oyster Bay, and includes jurisdictions, agencies and CBOs that have an interest in the OLU, as well as regional and state collaborators.
The shoreline is vulnerable to coastal inundation, liquefaction and rising groundwater and contamination as a result of rising sea levels. The plan will protect shoreline communities from expected sea level and groundwater rise, enhance transportation and recreation corridors and bay access, reduce flood exposure, create or restore marsh, upland and transitional habitat with nature‐based solutions, improve air quality and reduce climate risks to shoreline communities throughout the San Leandro (OLU) and will use a decision‐making process to ensure the voices of all stakeholders are heard.
The City of Alameda worked with communities and organizations to establish the Working Group, and solicited proposals to develop a Long‐term Adaptation Plan.
The Long‐term Adaptation Plan is being developed with two other adaptation projects: 1) Oakland‐Alameda Estuary Adaptation Project; 2) Bay Farm Island Adaptation Project. These three adaptation projects are expected to take up to three years with completion expected in 2025.