Author: Glenn C. Rice

Congresswoman Jackie Speier, US 12th Congressional representative (representing south SF, SSF, Daley City and south through San Carlos), recently proposed new legislation to restore San Francisco bay tidal marshes, reduce bay contaminants and improve the health of the San Francisco Bay.

On the surface, not many bay area residents can criticize a billion dollar ‘feel good’ hand out from the federal government to clean up our bay.

Unfortunately it is not so simple.  The bay is important, of course.  But we don’t use the bay for drinking water; we haven’t dumped raw sewage into the bay for 30 years; there have been no large fish kills from pollution, disease or suffocating algae blooms.