While on HTO staff, Priya Verma, now a UCSB doctoral candidate, outlined the perimeter of an unlined landfill in the city of Santa Barbara waterfront area, where monitoring wells show presence of chemicals and toxins, and where groundwater is pulled to the ocean and possibly into Laguna Channel. Because of HTO’s work, the Regional Water Quality Control Board recently required the city of Santa Barbara to produce a Wet Weather Preparedness Report and a Sampling Analysis Plan for the landfill - as well as a Report of Waste Discharge (ROWD) which we will be reviewing.