What are the requirements for pile driving in San Francisco Bay?
NOAA Fisheries recommends measures to minimize impacts of pile driving activity to threatened and endangered fish and EFH, including work windows and sound attenuating practices. The work window for pile driving projects in San Francisco is from June 1 to November 30. The work window for projects in some of the tributaries to San Francisco Bay (e.g., Petaluma River, Napa River, and Sonoma Creek) is somewhat shorter, from August 1 to October 15. Examples of measures to lessen the impacts of sound include daily work windows based on tidal cycle, bubble curtains, or coffer dams. For more information see the Pile Driving page on this Web site.
