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THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on April 19 , 1988 by the following vote:
AYES: Supervisors Powers , Fanden, McPeak, Torlakson, Schroder
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
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SUBJECT: Resolution to Proclaim the Week of April 24 , 1988,
as "San Francisco Estuary Awareness Week"
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The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors RESOLVES THAT:
i. The San Francisco Bay-Sacramento/San Joaquin Delta Estuary
is a national treasure and a significant international
resource and its environmental, economic and cultural impor-
tance extends far beyond its waters and the communities that
line its shores.
2. The Congress has enacted, in the Water Quality Act of 1987 ,
the National Estuary Program which designates the San Fran-
cisco Bay a priority estuary of national significance.
3 . 1 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the State of
California have signed an agreement to convene a Management
Conference and have designated the Estuary to be a part of
the National Estuary Program.
4. The State Water Resources Control Board .and affected Region-
al Boards are now engaged in a hearing process by which
salinity controls, flow requirements and water quality
standards will be adopted for the Bay and Delta.
5. Local jurisdictions, scientists, environmentalists, business
leaders, and other interested citizens ., are: participants- in
the San Francisco Estuary Project.
. 6. The Estuary -supplies drinking water to more than sixteen
million Northern and Southern Californians and is home to
six million people.
/ . The Estuary provides an essential habitat for unique plants,
fish and wildlife, and its wetlands are crucial to the many
hundreds of thousands of waterfowl and shorebirds that live
in the area or migrate through it on the Pacific Flyway.
8. Water from the Estuary is' made available for agricultural
irrigation, municipal and industrial uses throughout much of
the Central Valley and Southern California.
9 . As one of the world' s greatest harbors, the Estuary' s ports
and industries provide jobs, a tax base and an important
link to world trade.
10. The Bay and the Delta provide swimming, water skiing,
hunting, fishing clam digging, sailing, windsurfing and
other recreational opportunities.
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11. Our use and abuse of its beauty together with the continued
population growth and development in its watershed have
taken a toll on the health of the Estuary.
12 . This Board PROCLAIMS the week of April 24, 1988, "San
Francisco Bay and Delta Estuary Awareness Week" to reaffirm
its commitment to protect this vital resource.
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supervisors on the date shown.
ATTESTED. April 19 , 1988
PHIL BATCHELOR,Clerk of the Board
of Supervlso and County Administrator
By
DBO: jn
144:aware.res
Orig. Dept: Community Development
CC: San Francisco Estuary Project (via CDD)
Committee for Water Policy Consensus (via CDD)
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