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Top Five Things We’ve Learned from Water Quality Monitoring

We may not think about it every day, but we all live in a watershed. A watershed is the area of land that catches all the rain and snow, which collects into a marsh, stream, …

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When a Safe Harbor Isn’t Safe

Polluted runoff is San Diego County’s number one water quality problem.  It’s what causes the Department of Environmental Health to issue 72-hour polluted beach advisories when it rains and what causes our local streams and …

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What is A Waterkeeper?

As San Diego Coastkeeper’s Waterkeeper, Legal & Policy Director, and attorney, it is my job to ensure that those businesses, governments, and individuals who pollute San Diego’s waters are held accountable and that our waters …

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What Can Insects Teach Us About Our Water?

San Diego County has at least 360 known pollutant impairments in 166 bodies of water. How do we know? One of the methods that San Diego Coastkeeper uses to identify polluted water is to take …

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Water Quality: What’s Drought Got to Do With It?

Every year, Heal the Bay puts out a beach report card, providing essential water quality information to the millions of people who swim, surf or dive in the coastal waters of the West Coast. The …

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Water Quality in 2015 – How Drought Causes Worse Water Quality

In 2015, all nine of the watersheds tested as Fair, Marginal or Poor on San Diego Coastkeeper’s Water Quality Index scoring system, all earning the same abnormally low scores as 2014.

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Water Quality 2015: Carlsbad Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 66, Fair To no surprise, our 2015 data showed that: Nitrate continues to be  consistently high in upper Escondido Creek. Every single sample collected from our three upper Escondido Creek sites …

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Water Quality 2015: San Luis Rey Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 80, Fair Of the nine watersheds we measure in our water quality monitoring program, San Luis Rey had the best water quality index score in 2015.  But at 79.9 (roughly a …

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Water Quality 2015: San Diego Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 62, Marginal The San Diego River had another bad year. Key data takeaways include: Commonly high levels of phosphorus and ammonia Dissolved oxygen at the Fashion Valley site continued to be …

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Water Quality 2015: Tijuana Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 14, Poor Since we can only sample the Tijuana watershed when water levels are high after a recent rain, we were only able to sample the watershed three times this year. …

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Top Five Things We’ve Learned from Water Quality Monitoring

We may not think about it every day, but we all live in a watershed. A watershed is the area of land that catches all the rain and snow, which collects into a marsh, stream, …

Read More

When a Safe Harbor Isn’t Safe

Polluted runoff is San Diego County’s number one water quality problem.  It’s what causes the Department of Environmental Health to issue 72-hour polluted beach advisories when it rains and what causes our local streams and …

Read More

What is A Waterkeeper?

As San Diego Coastkeeper’s Waterkeeper, Legal & Policy Director, and attorney, it is my job to ensure that those businesses, governments, and individuals who pollute San Diego’s waters are held accountable and that our waters …

Read More

What Can Insects Teach Us About Our Water?

San Diego County has at least 360 known pollutant impairments in 166 bodies of water. How do we know? One of the methods that San Diego Coastkeeper uses to identify polluted water is to take …

Read More

Water Quality: What’s Drought Got to Do With It?

Every year, Heal the Bay puts out a beach report card, providing essential water quality information to the millions of people who swim, surf or dive in the coastal waters of the West Coast. The …

Read More

Water Quality in 2015 – How Drought Causes Worse Water Quality

In 2015, all nine of the watersheds tested as Fair, Marginal or Poor on San Diego Coastkeeper’s Water Quality Index scoring system, all earning the same abnormally low scores as 2014.

Read More

Water Quality 2015: Carlsbad Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 66, Fair To no surprise, our 2015 data showed that: Nitrate continues to be  consistently high in upper Escondido Creek. Every single sample collected from our three upper Escondido Creek sites …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: San Luis Rey Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 80, Fair Of the nine watersheds we measure in our water quality monitoring program, San Luis Rey had the best water quality index score in 2015.  But at 79.9 (roughly a …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: San Diego Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 62, Marginal The San Diego River had another bad year. Key data takeaways include: Commonly high levels of phosphorus and ammonia Dissolved oxygen at the Fashion Valley site continued to be …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: Tijuana Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 14, Poor Since we can only sample the Tijuana watershed when water levels are high after a recent rain, we were only able to sample the watershed three times this year. …

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