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ANNUAL REPORT 2021
Planning for Future safe enough for humans and the environment,
Environmental Enhancements providing new uses for Port tenants and benefits
Successful environmental enhancement projects for the greater Stockton area.
are preceded by careful planning e orts, many of
which are years in the making. The Port celebrates We also continued e orts of repurposing dredged
the progress that we have made with our partners sediment as a resource for habitat restoration, a
in two key focal areas in 2021: remediation of process known as innovative beneficial reuse
contaminated soils on Port property and (IBR). In the past, the Port and federal partners
facilitating habitat restoration through innovative used sediment from annual dredging of
beneficial reuse of dredged sediment. the Stockton Deepwater Shipping Channel,
conducted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to
ensure su cient depths for ship tra c and to
“THE PORT UNDERTOOK RIGOROUS restore sand dunes at the Antioch Dunes National
STUDIES OF SPECIFIC REMEDIAL Wildlife Refuge. The Port began evaluations this
year of using dredged sediment for marsh creation
SITES AND WORKED WITH OUR at Little Venice Island in the San Joaquin River
PARTNERS TO EVALUATE AND Delta, which has lost critical marsh habitat due to
subsidence and flooding. Moreover, we prepared
DEFINE CLEANUP STRATEGIES.”
plans to redistribute stockpiled dredged sediment
on Simmons Island in Suisun Marsh to
The Port is committed to cleaning up legacy disappearing habitats throughout the area. We are
contamination on Rough and Ready Island (or the dedicated to bringing these projects to fruition and
West Complex) from past U.S. Navy activities facilitating many more IBR projects in the Delta
dating back to the 1940s; we have worked closely where marsh restoration is urgently needed.
with the California Department of Toxic
Substances Control and Central Valley Regional While the Port recognizes that there are still
Water Quality Control Board to facilitate these many opportunities to improve environmental
remediation activities. In 2021, the Port undertook conditions in and around the Port, we take pride in
rigorous studies of specific remedial sites and the steps we have taken to promote change. We
worked with our partners to evaluate and define are committed to planning for a future that is
cleanup strategies. Eventually, after extensive healthy for our environment and our community.
remedial actions, those lands will once again be
