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Causes: Environment, Pollution Abatement & Control
Mission: Basmaa is focused on regional challenges and opportunities to improving the quality of stormwater that flows to our local creeks, san francisco bay and delta, and the ocean, through facilitation, promotion of information sharing, development of guidance and education, as well as development of new stormwater projects and programs.
Programs: Epa grant- clean watershed for a clean bay. The project focuses its activities in the watersheds that are contributing pcbs and other pollutants to the bay including identifying pcb "hot spots" source areas, referring source areas where appropriate to regulatory agencies for clean-up abatement, coordinating with municipalities to enhance removal of polluted sediments during routine sediment management acitivites, retrofitting 8-10 urban runoff treatment facilities to remove polluted sediments, and implementing a risk-reduction program for consumers of bay fish in partnership with the california department of health services.
the our water, our world program collaborated, among regional and local water pollution prevention agencies and locally owned nurseries and hardware stores, to encourage less-toxic methods of pest preventation and control dpr grant - ipm focus on multi-unit housing project: participating cities adopted the name "healthy buildings pilot program" for the project, as it was designed to address those stormwater pollution prevention challenges by combining water quality messages associated with outdoor use of pesticides with public health messages associated with indoor use of pesticides. Combining messages and targeting building owners, managers, residents, and pest management professionals (pmps).
municipal regional permit/regional projects - based on the national pollutant discharge eliminaiton system (npdes) permit, issued to the 76 phase i stormwater programs in the san francisco bay area. The association is working with member agencies, to design, develop, conduct and evaluate a series of regional programs and projects that assist member agencies to comply with the permit and advance the state of knowledge of stormwater quality management.
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