Summary: This layer was created to depict industrial land areas present in 1968. The layer is intended to contribute to a larger mapping and modeling effort designed to spatially depict land areas that may be sources of Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs) or mercury in the San Francisco Bay Area. The land areas are termed “old industrial” due to their presence prior to roughly 1970, the timeframe when PCB production in the U.S. ceased. Old industrial land parcels in Alameda, Contra Costa, San Mateo, Santa Clara and Solano counties are depicted. Parcels in the datalayer are defined via the most currently available assessor’s parcel data for each county.

PWA generated list of flooding "hot spots" for inlet locations only. For use in PCA designation process, February 2015

Census tracts within Oakland California that are in the upper 25th percentile statewide for CalEPA's Cal Enviroscreen 2.0, which compiled a series of socioeconomic and environmental indicators to determine "environmentally disadvantaged communities".

More information and methodology, plus the complete dataset available at http://oehha.ca.gov/ej/ces2.html

The Conservation Lands Network is the make-up of the types, amount and distribution of habitats that comprise the most essential lands needed to sustain the biodiversity of the San Francisco Bay Area.

This is a Geology layer of the SF Bay Area developed by USGS. The source data and the metadata can be accessed here: