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    Temporary Ban on camp fires in place at Lake Sonoma

    San Francisco - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has ordered a temporary ban on camp fires and open flames in all boat-in and hike-in campgrounds at Lake Sonoma
  • Spencer Langston, a crewmember from the M/V John A. B. Dillard, Jr., is raised out of the water by a davit system May 5. The Dillard crew conducted three days of rescue swimmer training in the San Francisco Bay May 3-5.

    Dillard crew conducts rescue swimmer training in SF Bay

    SAN FRANCISCO -- Crewmembers from the M/V John A. B. Dillard, Jr., braved frigid and choppy waters May 5 as they conducted rescue swimmer training in the San Francisco Bay.
  • Front page of the San Francisco Chronicle following the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.

    Readiness chief is well prepared for the next quake

    Duke Roberts is chief of readiness for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco District. His job is to make sure his agency is prepared to respond to natural disasters including the kind never far from the minds of San Franciscans: earthquakes.

  • It's All About Water for San Francisco Regulatory Staff

    "Water affects everything we do in California," which is why, according to Sahrye Cohen of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers San Francisco district, "the Corps' main regulatory goal is to balance impacts to aquatic resources and the environment with the ability to have appropriate develpment in the Bay Area."