“Flood Control 2.0: Rebuilding habitat shoreline resilience through improved flood control channel design and management” is an ambitious effort to restore stream and wetland habitats, water quality, and shoreline resilience to the San Francisco Bay. The project is a partnership between the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, San Francisco Bay Joint Venture, San Francisco Estuary Institute, Bay Conservation and Development Commission, Flood Control Districts, and others with funding support from the Environmental Protection Agency.
The partnership leverages local resources from flood control agencies to redesign major flood control channels and transform costly sediment removal and disposal (“waste”) into improved water quality and resources for healthy Bay habitats. This strategy maximizes the environmental, economic, and regulatory benefits of these new approaches, identifies other opportunities, and helps pave the path forward.
As one element of Flood Control 2.0, in June 2013 the San Francisco Bay Joint Venture and Bay Conservation and Development Commission co-hosted a “matchmaking” meeting between dredgers and project managers. Now being called “SediMatch”, the “speed dating/match-making” kick-off was structured as a forum to explain how dredge material can help raise wetland elevations while helping to introduce the dredgers with to the restoration project managers who have dredge material needs.
