Successful Earth Day Event Kicks Off California Restoration

Four years after the entry of a $2.85 million natural resource damages settlement with Chevron, OR&R participated in an Earth Day Groundbreaking Ceremony for Restoration in Richmond, California. Breuner Marsh is the second of two sites selected in the Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan prepared by NOAA and our co-trustees, compensating for injuries from historical contamination at the Chevron Richmond refinery in the San Francisco Bay area. Restoration at the other site, Cullinan Ranch, began two years ago. The Castro Cove Trustees' settlement contributed $1 million toward the 200+ acre, $8 million Breuner Marsh project, being managed by the East Bay Regional Park District. The Breuner project will enhance and expand degraded intertidal habitat and seasonal wetlands, protect listed endangered species, and improve public access and enjoyment of this site only a few short miles from the Chevron Richmond refinery. For further information, contact Greg.Baker@noaa.gov Go back to OR&R Weekly Report.

Shovels ready, a range of partners get ready to break ground on a site at Breuner Marsh which will restore wetlands and coastal prairie in the San Francisco Bay area. (NOAA)

These wetlands along the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay will be enhanced and expanded as part of the Breuner Marsh restoration. (NOAA)

California Congressman George Miller thanked the many partners involved in making the restoration of Breuner Marsh a possibility. (NOAA)