Baykeeper's goals:• Strengthen and defend laws and regulations that protect and restore San Francisco Bay ecosystems; • Reduce and prevent pollution entering San Francisco Bay and its tributaries; • Protect and restore key habitat of the San Francisco Bay ecosystem; and• Patrol San Francisco Bay in the Baykeeper boat to identify and assess threats to water quality and habitats.

Using water quality monitoring, science, and on-the-water patrols, Baykeeper identifies the greatest threats to the health of San Francisco Bay's ecosystem. To address those threats, we strategically use advocacy, public education, and legal action to secure smart solutions that stop pollution and restore water quality.

Baykeeper is the sole on-the-water nonprofit dedicated to protecting San Francisco Bay from pollution. We have a staff of eleven with scientific and legal expertise, a board of directors possessing a breadth of experience with the Bay, an expert advisory council, 3,000 members, an online network of 5,000, and a team of volunteer boat skippers. Our 24-foot pollution patrol boat is the only vessel monitoring and investigating pollution in the Bay—even the government agencies charged with protecting the Bay often rely on Baykeeper to bring their investigators on-scene.

Progress indicator: pollution prevented. For example, as a result of Baykeeper's lawsuit, the federal government was required to clean up and remove the Ghost Fleet, 57 decaying military ships that poisoned the San Francisco Bay ecosystem for 40 years. The Ghost Fleet was a collection of mothballed military ships from World War II and the Korean War. They were originally stored in Suisun Bay, a large northern inlet of San Francisco Bay, for possible emergency reactivation during wartime. But as time passed, the fleet became a floating toxic waste dump. The ships leaked fuel, rusted, collected invasive species and shed more than 20 tons of toxic metals and paint into the water. The removal of these polluting vessels will prevent an estimated 50 tons of heavy metals and 14 million gallons of oil and wastewater from entering San Francisco Bay. It will also keep 38,000 cubic yards of PCBs out of the water, protecting Bay wildlife from a long-lasting contaminant that can cause liver damage and death. Baykeeper has secured legally-binding agreements that require 39 Bay Area industrial facilities to implement controls to keep heavy metals and other toxic substances out of San Francisco Bay. We measure the facilities' progress by comparing pollution levels in their runoff before and after implementation of required controls. 24 of these facilities have completed implementing pollution controls and either completely eliminated or significantly reduced their pollution. As a result of Baykeeper legal action, sewer agencies serving 20 Bay Area cities are required to upgrade their infrastructure and repair leaky pipes to prevent spills of raw and partly-treated sewage into San Francisco Bay. We measure their progress by comparing their rates of sewage spills per mile of pipe per year before and after they make the required upgrades. 4 agencies have completed their upgrades and are no longer causing sewage pollution problems in the Bay.

In 27 years, Baykeeper has:• compelled cleanup of pollution in San Francisco Bay from refineries, chemical companies, landfills, and city streets; • kept hundreds of millions of gallons of untreated sewage out of the Bay and local neighborhoods; • secured the cleanup and removal of the Ghost Fleet, 57 decaying surplus military ships that had poisoned the San Francisco Bay ecosystem for over 40 years; • won federal court victories to regulate pesticides, invasive species, and vessel pollution; • been recognized as a national leader in oil spill prevention and response; • conducted regular patrols of San Francisco Bay to monitor and stop pollution; and• responded to hundreds of citizen pollution reports through our pollution hotline.