Who We Are
 

The Oakland Alameda Adaptation Committee (OAAC) is a coalition of shoreline communities and stakeholders working to co-create a coordinated and inclusive future-looking action plan and sub-regional organizational structure to accelerate sea level rise adaptation, protect and restore water quality, recreation and habitat, and promote community resilience.

The Committee is organized around the SFEI San Leandro OLU, which stretches from the Bay Bridge touchdown in the north to Oyster Bay in the south, and includes jurisdictions, agencies and community based organizations that have an interest in the Oakland-Alameda shoreline, as well as regional, state and federal collaborators.

Our shoreline is vulnerable to coastal inundation and rising groundwater and contamination as a result of rising sea levels and liquefaction in earthquakes. These climate induced hazards will put critical infrastructure at risk, damage habitat, and further burden already vulnerable communities. Our goal is to create an inclusive, transformative, and equitable climate-ready community along the Oakland-Alameda shoreline.

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The Project Partners are the core team overseeing development of the adaptation projects, and are listed below. 

 

Project Partners

 

Steering Committee:

• Caltrans

• City of Alameda

• City of Oakland

• CASA (also Community Partner)

• Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation/Sogorea Té Land Trust (also Community Partner)

• East Bay Regional Park District

• Greenbelt Alliance (also Community Partner)

• Hood Planning Group (also Community Partner)

• Port of Oakland

• San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board

• West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project

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Community Partners:

• Community Action for a Sustainable Alameda (CASA)

• Confederated Villages of Lisjan Nation/Sogorea Té Land Trust

• Greenbelt Alliance

• Hood Planning Group

• Ninth Root

• REAP Climate Center with CCAC Fellows

 

Scientific Advisor: San Francisco Estuary Institute

 

Consultant Team:

• CMG Landscape Architecture

• Pathways Climate Institute

• Moffatt & Nichol

• NHA Advisors

• Schaaf & Wheeler Consulting Civil Engineers

• ESA

• Earth Mechanics, Inc.