The Healthy Bay Project examines industrial processes, land use practices, and consumer product uses that result in PBT accumulation in the Bay. We seek to translate our reduction strategies and inventory of PBTs into advocacy tools for Bay users. The project report will arm activists with concrete economic and technical facts needed to demand and win reductions in emissions and discharges that accumulate in the Bay and then harm people who eat fish from the Bay.

Clean Water Fund will present its findings to the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water for use in the Coalition's advocacy in the Clean Estuary Partnership. Created by the San Francisco Regional Water Quality Control Board, the Bay Area Clean Water Agencies, and the Bay Area Stormwater Management Agencies Association, the Clean Estuary Partnership encourages community participation in San Francisco Bay Total Maximum Daily Load processes. Using input from community workshops and the Healthy Bay project, community organizations active in the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water are preparing a list of regional impaired water body priorities from the perspective of low-income, communities of color to present to the Regional Board.

Please see the following documents:

• Table of Contents of the Final Report (1 page pdf file)
• Executive Summary of the Final Report (3 pages pdf file)
• Summary of Recommendations of the Final Report (2 pages pdf file)
• Final Report (38 pages pdf file)