http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary en info+healtheocean@oniracom.com (Heal The Ocean) Copyright 2010 2010-08-03T18:58:36+00:00 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/jack_johnson_will_double http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/jack_johnson_will_double Jesse of Miramar Beach, who donated in July for his doggie bags! Donate in the name of your dog today and email your photo! In June 2010, HTO’s newly formed Junior Council took on the duty of stocking doggie bag dispensers on Santa Barbara south county beaches and parks, and these hard workers are raising money to pay for these biodegradable bags! They go quickly – about 2,500 bags per week. Jack Johnson, a great friend to HTO and environmental causes everywhere, is playing sold-out concerts at the Santa Barbara Bowl on October 14, 2010, and he is helping local organizations by doubling donations made to each group. We asked Jack if he would buy 1,000 doggie bags for every 1,000 paid for by HTO donors ($60) and he thought it was a great idea!  So, click here and select “Doggie Bags.” (You will see Jesse of Miramar Beach, who in July donated for the bags he uses!) Donate $60 for 1,000 bags, and Jack Johnson will match it with another 1,000 bags, and you will be entered into a raffle for a pair of tickets to Jack’s Santa Barbara Bowl concert October 14 (5 pairs will be raffled, drawing to be held October 1, 2010). For more details, visit Jack Johnson Music and All At Once. Doggie Donors Monet and Lily bought 1,000 doggie bags!(The dog in the middle is HTO Board Director Charles Vinick) Wolfy donated 1,000 dog bags on August 4, 2010 1000 DOGGIE BAGS WERE PURCHASED IN MEMORY OF LEIA LODATO. 1000 Doggie Bags were donated by Pi Doubilet in Central Park NYC! Mr. Mojo of Santa Barbara (friend of Wolfy) bought 1,000 Doggie Bags to donate to the cause! Lucy donated to doggie bags…. And so did Rex! Jeff Young, co-founder of HTO, with his doggie Annabelle, who donated to HTO Doggie Bags. (Jeff is the one on the left, just to be sure everyone knows)! Bella the Beagle of Sandyland Cove has donated 1,000 Doggie Bags! Chloe Scranton of Montecito has bought 2,000 (!!) Doggie Bags! 1,000 Doggie Bags have been bought in memory of Chrissie (left) and Buster (right). Rescued out of a breeding facility, Bella is one happy dog, free to run on the beach and smell the flowers! She’s donated 2,000 Doggie Bags to help out! Foo Foo of Rincon has bought 5,000 (!!!) Doggie Bags! Spork and his mom, Maddie bought 1,000 Doggie Bags to help HTO Junior Council! Greta, who loves her Curious George Doll (and probably loves Jack Johnson’s Curious George music!) just sent a donation for 1,000 Doggie Bags! This anonymous Doggie donated 1,666 Doggie Bags to the HTO Junior Council program….. ...and his elegant brother even donated some additional Doggie Bag dispensers! Jesse of Miramar Beach (and very first donator to HTO Junior Council Doggie Bag program) is back with another donation because he wants a chance to win a pair of tickets to Jack Johnson’s sold-out concert at the Santa Barbara Bowl October 24! Beautiful Bodie Scheuermann of Montecito just bought 1,000 doggie bags to help out! Tue, 03 Aug 2010 11:58:36 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/countdown_to_htos_october_9_event http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/countdown_to_htos_october_9_event Invitations to HTO’s October 9 Benefit Concert at the Coral Casino will soon be in the mail, making single seats available, and we hope everyone responds quickly because through generous sponsorships nearly 80% of the seats are already sold! Julia Louis-Dreyfus is again our wonderful honorary chair (boy do we love her!) and the all new October 2010 event will be emceed by HTO advisory board member (and world great underwater showman/filmmaker) Mike deGruy. The 2010 Event Committee, led by the architecture/design team of John Maienza and Gregg Wilson of Globally Gorgeous is putting together a fantasmagoric production, with our music production headed by Oniracom. Please dial in to our website donation page to join in the 2010 fun! Tue, 03 Aug 2010 10:14:29 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/were_moving_ahead_with_ocean_projects_and_great_fundraisers http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/were_moving_ahead_with_ocean_projects_and_great_fundraisers Hi, Everybody! A lot is happening at Heal the Ocean! First, on August 2, 2010 Santa Barbara County Planning & Development approved Conditional Use and Coastal Development permits to allow the construction of public sewer lines to connect Sandyland (photo here) and Sandyland Cove (Sand Point) homes to the Carpinteria Sanitary District (CSD). This moves the entire South Coast Beach Communities Septic to Sewer Project (including Rincon) a step closer to reality! This project, which has been championed by HTO since 1998, will effect the removal of septic systems from approximately 7 miles of south coast beaches. The permitting process for the Rincon portion of the project is soon to be underway with Santa Barbara County P&D and Cal Trans. Please stay tuned! HTO is now collaborating with UCSB Bren School of Environmental Science and Management to host an all-day Working Forum of wastewater treatment plant managers and water district managers. The goal is learn what is needed, both in infrastructure and funding, for wastewater recycling and reuse - as a way to keep wastewater out of the ocean. Our ultimate aim is to find funding for projects that will accomplish such transformation. To move HTO into a position where we can lobby for such funds, we put ourselves onto the steering committee for the Santa Barbara County Integrated Regional Water Management Program (IRWMP), which is working to present projects to the State for funding under Proposition 84. HTO is the only non-profit on the steering committee, working with agencies from every city around the county - public works directors, sanitary districts, water districts, etc., - to approve projects for submittal to Sacramento. We are excited about moving forward on our ocean work, and we are also thrilled about the wonderful people and groups who are helping us fundraiser - for our programs, for funds to buy Doggie Bags for our HTO Junior Council program, and to help us pay for consultants, engineers and researchers. Please review the Featured Upcoming Events on this page, to sign up! Heal the Ocean remains at the helm, working to identify and eliminate sources of pollution, on behalf of all of us who love the ocean. Thank you for helping, Mon, 02 Aug 2010 13:39:53 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/heal_the_oceans_junior_council http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/heal_the_oceans_junior_council Heal the Ocean’s newly formed Junior Council has taken on the duty of stocking dog bag dispensers at many of South Santa Barbara County’s parks, open spaces and beaches! When Heal the Ocean began receiving calls about the dog bag dispensers being empty because of Santa Barbara County’s lack of funds, the Junior Council stepped up to the plate and voted unanimously to take on the job - not only to stock the dispensers, but to hold fundraisers to raise the money to by the biodegradable dog-waste bags. Keeping the beaches clean of dog waste is a clean-ocean project with a direct effect! On Wednesday, June 19, 2010, a special press event at Butterfly Beach in Montecito was held during which the Junior Council was greeted and thanked by Santa Barbara County First District Supervisor Salud Carbajal and Second District Supervisor Janet Wolf, Board Chair, in an official announcement of the collaborative partnership. “To bring a group of teenagers together and have them so motivated, in so short a time, it’s truly an inspiration,” Ms. Wolf said. Mr. Carbajal added, “These are difficult times for government in our country, and to have these kids take charge bodes well for our future,” said Mr. Carbajal. “I want to thank and celebrate you guys for stepping up and modeling the way.” The Junior Council was created with the help of its steering committee, parents Kim Busch, Paula Stussy and Stacy Pulice, and also former HTO staffer Lindsay McTavish. The steering committee parents contributed the initial $2,600 to get the program started, but the Junior Council will begin raising funds for the bags, including a dance planned for September. The initial funds paid for 36,000 dog waste bags, made from a native cornstarch and entirely biodegradable, each one costing 6.3 cents. In addition to Butterfly Beach, the other County parks, beaches and open space areas included in the new HTO-JC/County partnership are: First District Locations: Lookout Park in Summerland Oceanview Park in Summerland Manning Park in Montecito Rocky Nook Park in Santa Barbara Loon Point in Summerland Posilipo Lane Beach Access in Montecito Toro Canyon Park in Montecito Butterfly Beach in Montecito Rincon park - upper parking lot Second District Locations: Goleta Beach Tucker’s Grove Park in Goleta Tabano Hollow Open Space in Goleta Tarragona Open Space in Goleta University Circle Open Space in Goleta Patterson Open Space in Goleta The County has given special thanks to the Junior Council, and the HTO Board of Directors also shouts a mighty Bravo to the Junior Council volunteers, including: Andy Busch, Max deGruy, Caleigh Hernandez, McKenna Hogue, Hannah Koper, Rose Koper, Ben Kwock, Monica Lodato, Austin Lokre, Remy Pulice, Cecily Sanchez, Elise Scheuermann, Penn Stussy, Charlie Taylor, Danielle Zola, and Jordan Zola! At Butterfly Beach the HTO Junior Council is being thanked by 2nd District Supervisor Janet Wolf (far left) and 1st District Supervisor Salud Carbajal, far right (Hawaiian shirt). The HTO Junior Council steering committee looking on at the Butterfly Beach ceremony, L to R: Kim Busch, Paula Stussy, and Stacy Pulice. photos by Thomas Dabney Mon, 21 Jun 2010 15:56:49 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/goleta_beach_needs_our_help http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/goleta_beach_needs_our_help E-mail the Board of Supervisors The new plan to protect Goleta Beach includes a plan to move the sewer and utility lines out of the “critical erosion zone,” and we ask you to support “Goleta Beach 2.0” so that this can happen. Please help by e-mailing the Board of Supervisors:  sbcob@co.santa-barbara.ca.us INSTRUCTIONS - Cut and paste the following into an email (edit if desired): Dear Honorable County Supervisors: We support “Goleta Beach 2.0” as an innovative plan to protect and enhance Goleta Beach County Park. The Parks Department’s new plan preserves and expands the beach by over an acre, but most importantly, the plan relocates the sewer and utility lines out of the “critical erosion zone.” The County’s sewer line should be moved all the way back to Highway 217 to avoid future sewage spills on the beach. In this way, Goleta Beach 2.0 protects the Park and the environment. We urge you to support Goleta Beach Park and direct staff to pursue all options to move the sewer line further inland. Sincerely, (Your name and address) _____________________________________________________________ In addition to sending an e-mail, please attend the pivotal hearing: July 6th @ Santa Barbara County Board Supervisors Hearing Room, 105 E Anapamu St., 4th Floor (Time TBD - call 568-2240) Contact Brian Trautwein at (805)963-1622 for more information. HEAL THE OCEAN JOINS The EDC & Surfrider Foundation to thank you! Thu, 10 Jun 2010 18:10:32 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/happy_spring http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/happy_spring Hi, Everybody! A big thank you to Heal the Ocean’s good friends John Maienza and Gregg Wilson, the famous Globally Gorgeous architect/interior designer guys who are doing huge things by just communicating what they feel about Mother Earth and being green and being cool. John and Gregg hosted a phenomenal party for Heal the Ocean on May 20, 2010 at their fabulous East Mountain Drive property in Santa Barbara, where we celebrated with wind, rain (waterfall) and fire (outside fireplace), while Harold Welch of World Cuisine Express up fabulous things for us. It was a sneak preview of HTO’s upcoming Annual Event on October 9, 2010 at the Coral Casino, which is being given a high-tech design by the Maienza/Wilson team. Thank you to our 2010 Benefit Founding sponsors, who bought or pledged nearly $100,000 for half the tables! Julia Louis-Dreyfus is again our wonderful honorary chair (boy do we love her!) and the all new October 2010 event will be emceed by HTO advisory board member (and world great underwater showman/filmmaker Mike deGruy, who is known for his fabulous storytelling) check out his award-winning talk on the prestigious TED series, “Hooked by an Octopus”. And I personally can’t wait until we’re all dancing to my personal favorite dance band, The FOG (Favorite Olden Goldies). Please dial in to our website donation page, to join in the 2010 fun! We appreciate all the support we’re getting for our current campaign for wastewater reclamation on the Santa Barbara south coast. In this regard HTO is working on putting together a Working Forum of wastewater treatment plant managers and water district managers, to learn what is needed, both in infrastructure and funding, for wastewater recycling and reuse - as a way to keep wastewater out of the ocean. Our goal is to find funding for projects that will accomplish such transformation, and to move Heal the Ocean into a position where we can lobby for such funds, we are doing a number of things: One of which is getting HTO onto the steering committee for the Santa Barbara County Integrated Regional Water Management Program (IRWMP), which is working to present projects to the State for funding under Proposition 84. HTO is the only non-profit on the steering committee, working with agencies from every city around the county - public works directors, sanitary districts, water districts, etc., - to approve projects for submittal to Sacramento. For the first round of Proposition 84 funding ($5 million for the region), the list approved in May by the steering committee includes: 1) A Secondary Water Efficiency System for the City of Santa Maria; 2) a monetary contribution to the Goleta Sanitary District wastewater treatment plant upgrade (this upgrade a result of HTO legal settlement with GSD in 2004!); 3) San Jose Creek Capacity Improvement & Fish Passage, City of Goleta; 4) Lompoc Valley Regional leak Detection Program (which saves water); 5) Santa Ynez River Tamarisk & Arundo project, to remove noxious weeds from the Santa Ynez River; 6) a Waterline & Recycled Waterline project for the Goleta Water District; 7) a CCWA Pipeline Erosion Damage and Repair project; and 8) a Recycled Water Feasibility Study for the City of Guadalupe. During the fall the IRWMP group will begin scrutinizing another list of projects for the second round of Proposition 84 funding, and HTO will be working to get projects on the list that focus on turning wastewater into reusable - very clean - recycled water. When we say “very clean,” we mean recycled water without chemicals or contaminants, such as pharmaceuticals, anti-bacterials, flame retardants, etc. These chemicals now go straight through standard wastewater treatment to the ocean, and it’s happening every day. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) is finally holding hearings to deal with this issue, and Heal the Ocean is right there, working on the problem and contributing our arguments (see The Comment / PDF) on behalf of all of us who love the ocean. Thank you for helping, Thu, 27 May 2010 11:46:55 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/california_ocean_wastewater_discharge_report_and_inventory http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/california_ocean_wastewater_discharge_report_and_inventory FINALLY! After five long years, Heal the Ocean launches our California Ocean Wastewater Discharge Report and Inventory! We started the research for this report when we had an entirely different staff, and were located in an entirely different office. We have announced so many times that we were “nearly ready to release” this report that some people have most certainly thought to themselves, “Oh, sure…” Why did it take so long? First of all, the information about wastewater treatment plant operations in the State of California does not exist in any one place. Wastewater treatment plant methods of reporting according to requirements of their National Pollution Discharge Elimination System Discharge (NPDES) permits are not standardized, each report submitted to EPA has different information than the next treatment plant. Regional water quality control boards failed to have information or reports. Heal the Ocean researchers plugged along with this problem for years, and our California Ocean Wastewater Discharge Report and Inventory contains accurate information for each wastewater treatment plant that discharges into the Pacific Ocean, from the Oregon border to San Diego/Tijuana! HTO intends this report be a valuable resource for the public agencies charged with ocean water quality, as well as an educational tool for wastewater regulators and policy makers. Another reason for our elongated research time was that the information kept changing - and growing, and growing. And in a quite horrific way. While our focus was (and is) on bacteria that make our beaches unhealthy for swimming, the looming problem of chemicals in the ocean moved into our target range - and every day the subject grew larger, before our eyes. All of us had been hearing about endocrine disruptors causing sea animals to change sex, the proliferation of tumors in fish and about antibiotics making their way into the sea and posing a very real threat to swimmers, who could possibly pick up antibiotic resistance if they swam into these drugs. Then, the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) appointed a special panel to look at the problem of these proliferating chemicals that make their way into the ocean undeterred by currently accepted wastewater treatment methods. Called “Contaminants of Emerging Concern” (CECs), these chemicals are included in almost any personal care product you buy. They are in shampoo, toothpaste, body lotions, aftershaves, baby lotions, and particularly in anti-bacterial soap. They are in knives, cutting boards, shoes - you name it. The picture is horrifying - not only for what is happening to our environment from these chemicals - but what we have been, unwittingly, putting on and into our bodies all these years! HTO research associate Katherine Engel and I attended the SWRCB) panel hearings on CECs, hosted by the Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (SCCWRP) in Costa Mesa. Katherine researched deeper into the subject of Personal Care Products and prepared a list of the most suspect chemicals - what products they are included in and why, and what health dangers each one poses to humans (as well as the environment). Day by day, we were aghast at what we were learning as a result of Katherine’s research. Her companion piece to our Report and Inventory is called “Bad for the Ocean, Bad for You…” - be sure you read it! Also, please read her essay, “Personal Care Products - A Researcher’s Journey,” about how she personally felt as she discovered how chemical companies have bamboozled society for so long. Be sure to read this one, too! Along the way I decided to take advantage of Katherine’s research and brought into the office two products I’d been using - a really expensive shampoo with a “pure” name I’d bought from the last hair stylist I’d gone to, and a hand/body lotion I’d been using for years. I plunked these two things on Katherine’s desk and asked her to give me a diagnosis of both. Here’s what was in the shampoo, which I’d been daily massaging into my scalp: PVP, Butylene glycol (similar to Propylene glycol (PG), PEG-55 Propylene Glycoloeate, Cyclopentasiloxane, PEG-12 dimethicone (dimethicone), Trienthanolamine (TEA); Retinyl palmitate; Me Methylchloroisoiazolinone (I’m not making this up); DMDM Hydantoin; Methylparaben; Perfume/fragrance; Yellow 5 (CI 19140); Yellow 6 (CI 15985) “Sunset Yellow”; and Titanium dioxide (CI 77891). The hand/body lotion? Dimethicone; Distearyldimonium chloride; Steareth-21; Propylene glycol; Polysorbate 60; Dipotassium EDTA; Perfume/Fragrance; Triethanolamine (TEA); Diazolidinyl urea; Methylparaben and Propylparaben. WELL! When I got home I took all of my personal care products - including one jar of face cream that cost $124 (!) - and put all of it into a paper bag for…for…I don’t know what. It is not good to throw these things down the drain, and landfills aren’t great either for disposing failed chemistry experiments.) Then I went to a few stores that sold a wide array of shampoos, lotions, facial formulas. Their labels have lovely pronounceable words, like lavender, fennel, coconut oil, and jojoba. Heal the Ocean will be taking our Report and Inventory on the road, so to speak. We will be talking to state water agencies, politicians, experts and regulators. And while we’re at it, we will be encouraging all of you, our dear members, to free yourselves from chemicals. Read your labels! By discontinuing the use of chemicals, you will find yourselves empowered by making a wise change in direction for you and your family’s health. You will also be exercising an immediate remedy to one big problem of ocean pollution - by enacting what is called “source control.” This is something you can do immediately! Today! We thank you for joining us in this campaign. Thank you for helping, Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:41:02 -0700 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/clean_water_act_undermined http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/clean_water_act_undermined Dear Ocean Lover: Yesterday’s New York Times contains a chilling story about the U.S. Supreme Court declaring ambiguous the language of the Clean Water Act in terms of “navigable waters,” leaving thousands of polluters outside the law. “Companies that have spilled oil, carcinogens and dangerous bacteria into lakes, rivers and other waters are not being prosecuted according to the Environmental Protection Agency regulators working on those cases, who estimate that more than 1,500 major pollution investigations have been discontinued or shelved in the last four years,” says this news story, written by Charles Duhigg and Janet Roberts as part of the New York Times “Toxic Waters” series. At issue is the language in CWA that limits its regulatory power “to the discharge of pollutants into the navigable waters of the United States.” The Supreme Court is now maintaining that waters entirely contained within one state, creeks that sometimes go dry, and lakes unconnected to larger water systems may not be “navigable waters” and therefore are not covered by the Clean Water Act - even though pollution from such waterways can make its way into sources of drinking water. Please read this article! And then locate your representative www.house.com - and write him or her your demand that the Supreme Court honor the intent of the Clean Water Act and direct the rewriting of this language to state, “...to the discharge of pollutants into the waters of the United States.” ALL our waters are important - for the health of our planet, and for our own health. Please stay tuned to this website, too, for Heal the Ocean’s imminent publishing of our California Ocean Wastewater Discharge Report and Inventory. This important report, the very first of its kind, is at the graphic designer now, and will be posted very soon. Thank you for helping, Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:30:19 -0800 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/hi http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/hi Dear Ocean Lover, Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we cannot help but think of our dear friends who have shown their love of the ocean all through the last year and then some!   In February – just in time for Valentine’s Day! – Heal the Ocean will be launching our report, Ocean Wastewater Discharge in the State of California Report and Inventory, now being reviewed by scientists and political experts. The publication of the Inventory, announced at Heal the Ocean’s 2009 event, is several months behind schedule as it goes through review, because the finalization of the report involves the design of 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. The Inventory has also been expanded to include the subject of the chemicals that are bypassing standard wastewater treatment and escaping into the ocean and the environment. Our Inventory contains a discussion of those chemicals as well as treatment needed for each, and how our policymakers must upgrade “state standards” for wastewater and biosolids. Our upcoming newsletter will explain how we, the public, can help immediately to counteract this chemical bypass problem by making informed choices about the personal care products we use, as well as other items that contain the harmful chemicals that now go down the drain and out to sea. In 2010 Heal the Ocean will also continue to tackle storm water and landfill pollution of the ocean. We do this work with an important goal in mind: to find a reasonable way, as soon as possible, to stop the pollution of the ocean we all love. We so appreciate, and need, your help. Thank you! Thank you for helping, Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:42:17 -0800 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/hi_from_hillary2 http://www.healtheocean.org/library/hillary/hi_from_hillary2 On Friday, January 8, 2010, Heal the Ocean filed with the State of California its report on the results of a two-year oceanographic and microbiological study of the Montecito Sanitary District (MSD) outfall. “Monitoring the Microbiology of the Montecito Outflow Wastewater Plume,” is a report on an intensive project that tracked the travel of wastewater once it is discharged into the ocean off Butterfly Beach in Montecito. The study was funded by a $330,000 Proposition 50 grant from the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) - one of the first research grants of its type ever awarded! The UCSB scientists contracted by HTO for the project were oceanographers Libe Washburn and Carter Ohlmann, as well as microbiologist Dr. Trish Holden and her laboratory team. From November 2007 through November 2009, the scientists visited every week, by boat, the end of the MSD outfall, where they deployed GPS drifters to computer-map where the sewage plume travels. Ocean-water samples were then taken from the spots where the drifters drifted, and the samples were sent to Dr. Holden’s lab at UCSB to for DNA and bacteria analysis.  HTO also raised additional funds to send ocean-water samples to the USC laboratory of Dr. Jed Fuhrman for virus testing, as well as PhyloChip analysis in the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in Berkeley, California. The PhyloChip can scan for thousands of disease-causing microbes in a water sample and can determine definitively if human bacterial pathogens are in the wastewater plume. The outfall study report filed today contains an executive summary that outlines findings. The full suite of water collection and drift results can be viewed at http://www.icess.ucsb.edu/drifter/MSD/index.php.  Among the data compiled by the UCSB oceanographers are correlations of discharge rate and temperature, drifter tracks in 10-minute increments; water depth at each drifter position; the time rate of change of water depth; total velocity; east and north velocity components; and along-shore and across-shore velocity components. According to HTO executive director Hillary Hauser, the wastewater “plume” study is the first of its type to be conducted in California. “The study will help us understand what wastewater is or isn’t doing to the ocean,” she said. She also explained that because the UCSB scientists lost about six months of analysis work due to a temporary State funding freeze, HTO has raised additional funds (thanks to the Johnson Ohana Charitable Foundation) for the scientists to work six more months on “mining the data” - most notably the results of the PhyloChip testing - to produce a final, revised report by June 2010. The report filed today (Friday) fulfills HTO’s contract with the State of California under the terms of the Proposition 50 grant. “We thank the state of California for entrusting us with this most important research project!” said Hillary. “We are convinced that the advanced oceanographic technology and state-of-the-art water quality analytic technique being used for this study is an important step toward the ultimate goal of sound wastewater management in the state of California.” Thank you for helping, Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:27 -0800