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About 15 years ago, surfrider activists were protesting a beach for being polluted. The city council asked the police to escort them away. There was complete denial of the problem. 15 years later, Water Quality is on the agenda of every City Council Person in that local city, and thats completely a result of activists forcing the issue, surfrider and other local groups, saying, hey, these Water Quality issues are real and you need to address them. And only until the public sort of creates that w...

Eastern vegetation with them and make the necessary adaptations in their own life, desert communities can continue to live. Man the biggest water user in the desert is turf. Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would u...

Turf uses a lot of irrigation and uses spray irrigation, so what weve done here is use artificial turf. Youre never going to be able to achieve the look of back east or the look of, say, california, with subtropical plants, but our landscapes are still lush and use about 30 of what the subtropical landscape with turf would use. Las vegas has adopted a drought tolerant ordinance. Were using less water today than we used five years ago, despite over 300,000 new residents. I think its a Pretty Amaz...

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Been with the agency for 13 years. And were really recognizing them for two specific projects, one of which director heinicke is well familiar with, the eureka curve track replacement project which was replacing the track that you heard updates on often at the directors request over the course of the project. Very significant in terms of the basic service of the muni Metro Service through the tunnels and that the track had gotten worn to the point where we couldnt run. It was not safe for us to ...

Is that what we have seen is an effort to pit, you know, doing something to provide access to lowincome youth against the very important goal of actually funding maintenance for the mta. The two are not mutually exclusive and, in fact, the program thats before you, the funding thats before you recognizes that to increase access to transportation, you have to do both. And as director rifkin said, this funding proposal allows you to not only fund this pilot program, which is why one of the reasons...

Moms before a 27yearold oakland woman steps in to defend her colleague. Two men in confrontation at 2nd and king street. There is muffled track talkin and for a moment it appears both groups might walk away and then something likely words causes the oakland woman to turn. As she steps forward, she is blocked by one person, and hit by another. She lands on sidewalk, knocked unconscious. Are you kidding me . You are going to defend your family. Martha morales was happy to hear that the woman is no...

Cars are swerving there to avoid that. Crews have been installing on the bay bridge the largest light sculpture. Our reporter is live in San Francisco with a look at the first segment of the project. A lot of you watching this are just starting the day. They are up there wrapping their day up working all night, installing the first of 25,000 l. E. D. Lights with upclose access to their work overnight. Look at this. The team on the project says it will be the largest light sculpture. It will be a...

Hayward to san mateo under 15 minutes. Kristen and katie . In the last hour work crews on the bay bridge ended a long night to continue the installation of 25,000 l. E. D. Lights. Amy will tell us, this is all for a new art project live from the embarcardero. Amy . All in the name of art. They let us join them up there. Look at the access we were given on this first overnight shift of the installlation. The plan is to have 25,000 l. E. D. Lights grace the western span of the bridge. They will fl...

Looks mellow right now but do not let that fool you. The Officials Say this creek has caused problems and they expect it will cause problems again. So they will attack it today. They will line the creek with sandbags. It took them a day to prepare the sand bags. They filled 4,000 sandbags. They are hoping the sandbags will keep the creek contained for the rainy season. They are worried. The levee and the creek are damaged l is water that eroded the bank. The damage happened on christmas eve. The...