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Channelkeeper Takes Over Beach Monitoring

When we learned that Santa Barbara County had eliminated funding for its Ocean Monitoring Program, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper recognized that this is a critical public health service and stepped up to the plate to pick up the County’s slack. Beginning in early November, Channelkeeper began conducting weekly sampling at 12 of the County’s most popular beaches to monitor bacteria levels, indicators for whether it is safe to swim or surf in coastal waters. We are making our results available to the public every Tuesday afternoon and in the Wednesday editions of Santa Barbara News Press and The Daily Sound. Click here to view weekly results.
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Better Clean-Up Plan for Contaminated Soils in Carpinteria

Channelkeeper has been tracking the development of a plan for the clean-up of soils contaminated with toxic heavy metals, DDT and other pesticides at Venoco's Carpinteria Oil and Gas Processing Facility. After submitting extensive written comments and testifying before the Regional Water Quality Control Board, we succeeded in convincing the Board to reject a shoddy clean-up plan put forward by Venoco and Chevron (the former property owner) that would have left substantial volumes of contaminated soil onsite and instead direct them to come up with a more stringent clean-up plan.


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Stream Team
Ventura - Saturday, Jan. 10th
Goleta - Sunday,  Jan. 11th
 
 Stream Team is Channelkeeper's volunteer-based water quality monitoring program. Every month, volunteers join Channelkeeper staff to test for common water quality parameters at our established sampling sites throughout the Ventura River and Goleta Slough watersheds. Come join us and help protect our local waterways.
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