Oyster Beds Show Signs of New Life, MPA Training Guide Released and Other News

Residents, community advocates and environmental groups indicated strong opposition to the Wall Street water developer, Poseidon, on Friday, Dec. 6, at the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board workshop at Huntington Beach City Hall. More than 47 Orange County residents bided at the workshop all day to tell the board why they didn’t want a giant, polluting sea plant on our coast and in local communities. You have until January 21, 2020 to write a letter to the regional board and express your concerns. Read more .

The day before Thanksgiving, 1.4 million gallons of raw waste spilled in Laguna Beach due to a sanitary sewer hole at a golf course, stimulating state officials to close 16 miles of south Orange County ocean and inlet areas to the public for five days. Coastkeeper Founder and President Garry Brown said, “A sewage spill of that length expects a substantial penalty. We are going to work toward ensuring there is accountability and a penalty.” Coastkeeper is working with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board who is investigating the incident. Read more.

Coastkeeper’s restoration team and student volunteers sampled newer oyster plots that were installed six months ago in our Upper Newport Bay living shoreline restoration locates. The goals of the oyster repair places, which are made of oyster eggshells wrap in a coconut coir fiber mesh, are to help revitalize the native Olympia oyster population, stabilize the shoreline and improve overall irrigate caliber and habitat in the bay. The team is energized to report that there is a lot of new( oyster) life coming in to the locates, and they are hopeful to find lots of juvenile oysters soon! Learn more .

Following a workshop where neighbourhood enforcement officers discussed compliance issues for Marine Protected Areas, Orange County Coastkeeper along with the Orange County Marine Protected Area Council, MPA Collaborative Network and California Environmental Protection Agency together liberated a new prepare manual and citation guide as an added tool for officials to enforce conventions at Orange County’s seven Marine Protected Areas along the coast. The manual contains rules and regulations, maps, species identification and other useful tools. Read more .

For the last two decades, Coastkeeper has been working hard to hold polluters accountable and increase bacteria different levels of fecal coliform in Newport Harbor. This month, Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board successfully approved a 4-year “Time Schedule Order” to extend the schedule for is commensurate with fecal coliform effluent limits for exhausts to the Newport Bay watershed. “This was extremely important to us to keep the dishargers’ foot to the fire to improve water quality, ” said Garry Brown, Coastkeeper Founder and President. The destination is to reduce bacteria levels in the refuge where people recreate. Read More.

A gift to our Kids Care program will go directly to help support Coastkeeper’s marine debris education platform for rudimentary students in 3rd through 5th evaluate. This program learns minors about the dangers of marine junks while devoting them a hands-on beach cleanup knowledge. Many of our Kids Care students ordeal their first stay to the beach through this program. For $ 35, you can purchase a “reusable kit” for one of our Kids Care students, which will include an eco-friendly water bottle, cutlery package and straw. Learn more& Give.

January 4- Monthly Cleanup in San Clemente: Join Coastkeeper for our monthly scum cleanup at Calafia State Beach. Grab your family and friends and help us protect the California coast. 9-11 am. Must register in advance here.

January 4- Service Saturday at Coastkeeper Garden: Volunteers are welcome to participate in a morning of garden works while enjoying the natural grace of the Garden. Items can be found here.

January 11- Monthly Cleanup in Huntington Beach: Join Coastkeeper for our monthly scrap cleanup at Huntington State Beach. Grab your family and friends and help us protect the California coast. 9-11 am. Must register in advance here.

January 11- Coastkeeper Garden Plant Share: Looking to add brand-new weeds to your plot? Want to meet like thoughts gardeners? Then the Coastkeeper Plant Share is for you! Join us for a morning of entertaining. All of the information is here.

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