Heal the Ocean wishes everyone a most peaceful holiday season and a very good New Year! We thank you, our wonderful supporters, for your fantastic help in 2009.

We look forward to reporting back to you in January 2010 with the launching of our Ocean Wastewater Discharge Inventory for the State of California, now being reviewed by distinguished scientists and political experts. The Inventory directs Heal the Ocean’s 2010 campaign for the reclamation of wastewater now being discharged into the Pacific Ocean from the Oregon border to San Diego/Tijuana.

Early in 2010 you will also be able to read the final report on HTO’s two-year oceanographic/microbiological study of the Montecito Sanitary District wastewater outfall, entitled, Monitoring the Microbiology of the Montecito Outflow Wastewater Plume. Paid for by a $330,000 state Proposition 50 grant and with supporting research funded by private, anonymous foundations, this study is being submitted to the state of California at the end of December, with a final revise supported by the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation.

In the new year Heal the Ocean will also continue to tackle stormwater and landfill pollution of the ocean, doing this work with an important goal in mind: to find a reasonable way, as soon as possible, to stop the willful pollution of the ocean we all love.

Thank you for helping,