By Matthias Gafni in East Bay Times

May 18, 2016

POINT BUCKLER — A two-year Delta fight came to a head Tuesday as a state water agency proposed a $4.6 million fine — its largest ever — and cleanup order against a Pittsburg resident who owns a small island in the Suisun Marsh.

The San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board issued the complaint and abatement order alleging John Sweeney and his Point Buckler Club, a kite-surfing outfit catering to Silicon Valley executives, filled and degraded more than 29 acres of tidal wetlands on the 51-acre island, located just north of Pittsburg. The agency claims the unauthorized work and loss of wetlands created a “direct, negative impact” on the Suisun Marsh, “which provides critical habitat to migratory birds and threatened and endangered species including migrating salmon and Delta smelt.”

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