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Zone 7's work in the area of enviornmental stewardship comes in many forms -- aimed at protecting not only our local drinking-water supplies and flood-protection channels, but also the overall environment and quality of life.
We are actively involved in efforts to:
- Help protect, through management strategies, public education, community clean-up events and other means, our local watershed in order to reduce stormwater and other pollution in creeks.
- Work regionally with other agencies on a fisheries restoration effort to bring back a threatened steelhead trout population to portions of the Alameda Creek Watershed.
- Do our part to address global climate change by exploring ways to reduce dependence on fossil fuels for electrical energy used in our water-treatment and groundwater-pumping operations. Zone 7 also has begun planning ways to adapt its existing water-supply and flood-protection infrastructure to respond to greater climate variability in the future.
- Work with local jursidictions, along with state and federal resource agencies, to develop a habitat conservation strategy for eastern Alameda County. The Eastern Alameda County Conservation Strategy (EACCS) will provide a collaborative and consistent approach to preservation of the area's biological resources. The idea is to help coordinate and streamline mitigation requirements associated with various development and infrastructure projects (including Zone 7s water-supply and flood-protection projects), and to help base those mitigations on areas of strategic biological value.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 03 January 2008 )
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