Keeping Watch for Clean Water
On Saturday, April 20th, twenty-five volunteers with Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and members of the commercial fishing community and Tidy Seas worked together to remove more than fifty lobster traps that had washed ashore between Goleta Beach and More Mesa. This is the fourth year of shoreline cleanup collaborations for Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Commercial Fishermen of… Read more
On April 9, 2024, the Santa Barbara City Council voted in favor of improving the City of Santa Barbara’s Cruise Ship Program with measures to limit the number of ships calling on Santa Barbara and prioritize those ships with advanced pollution prevention technology and solid environmental compliance records. By a vote of six to one, the… Read more
The State Water Resources Control Board recently issued an order that overturned efforts to reduce nitrate fertilizer pollution discharges into groundwater supplies and surface waters in the Central Coast Region, which includes most of Santa Barbara County and all of San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties.Nitrate contamination is widespread and increasing along the Central Coast…. Read more
As Channelkeeper continues to build upon its legacy of clean water work, we are pleased to present our new Strategic Framework, an outline that will guide our conservation work for the next five years. This document represents the distillation of a year’s worth of discussions, research, stakeholder analysis, and planning into five strategic goals. It… Read more
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Ecological Rights Foundation recently reached a settlement agreement with Hot Line Construction in a lawsuit concerning a contaminated utility pole storage facility site in Goleta.Between 2014 and 2019, Hot Line Construction stored wooden utility poles treated with the toxic chemical pentachlorophenol at a site near the Santa Barbara Airport without… Read more