PACT Actions

Events:

Youth United for Community Action hosted a Community Town Hall on Groundwater Rise & Contaminated Sites on May 23, 2025, at EPACenter.
PACT Members tabled at the Love Out Earth Festival in Menlo Park on April 26, 2025.

Current Policy Efforts

PACT participated in state advocacy efforts in support of Assembly Bill 1102, a bill that sought to require the Department of Toxic Substances Control and the State Water Resources Control Board to submit a report to the Legislature identifying contaminated sites that are vulnerable to sea level rise and groundwater rise by January 1, 2027. See PACT's support letter here.
We are asking for signatures from East Palo Alto and Menlo Park residents on a letter asking the City Councils to support our research on testing local sewers and homes for VOCs. See the letter and sign here.

PACT Members Submit Letter on the SAFER Bay Draft Environmental Impact Report

Nuestra Casa, Climate Resilient Communities, Belle Haven Community Development Fund, and SPUR submitted a public comment letter on the Draft Environmental Impact Report for the SAFER Bay Project in January 2026. The SAFER Bay Project seeks to provide community resilience to current tidal flooding and projected sea level rise. Comments were made to further advance equitable and effective flood adaptation to East Palo Alto and Belle Haven where inland flooding is already being experienced during stormy King Tides events.
Read the letter here.

PACT Letter to Bay Conservation & Development Commission (BCDC) on Draft Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan

PACT submitted a public comment letter on the Draft Regional Shoreline Adaptation Plan (RSAP) in October 2024. Many of our concerns were addressed in the Final RSAP adopted by the BCDC in December 2024. We look forward to seeing this work move forward and will continue to partner with the BCDC on this effort.
Read PACT's letter here.

Climate Resilient Communities developed a community priority list for local contaminated sites

Youth United for Community Action (YUCA) hosts Town Halls on groundwater rise, & contaminated site clean-up

Ongoing.

PACT Members Contributed to SPUR & Nuestra Casa report on Groundwater Rise Impacts on East Palo Alto

Report published in May 2024
Read the report here.

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