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Water Quality 2015: Otay Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 57, Marginal Over the course of 2015, the Otay Watershed remained the most consistent watershed in the county. Unfortunately, the water quality was consistently bad. Consistently high bacteria levels: Every sample …

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Water Quality 2015: Pueblo Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 56, Marginal A few key takeaways from our Pueblo Watershed data: Chollas River sites often had very high phosphorus and ammonia Ph and nitrate levels were the only water quality indicators …

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Water Quality 2015: San Dieguito Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 76, Fair Our data in San Dieguito Watershed show: Enterococcus levels were high phosphorous and ammonia concentrations, were also concerning Ammonia and Phosphorous These are nutrients people add to farms, lawns …

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Water Quality 2015: Sweetwater Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 53, Marginal Our data in Sweetwater Watershed showed: Very low dissolved oxygen levels Usually high ammonia and phosphorus concentrations This is another watershed indicative of extremely low water flows creating high …

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Water Quality 2015: Los Peñasquitos Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 74, Fair Well, here it is: the most typical, average watershed in San Diego County in terms of water quality pollution and health. Our data in this watershed did not change …

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Helping Local Businesses Protect Our Precious Waters

From time to time I’m asked to speak at one event or another on issues related to water quality or water supply and I almost always seize those opportunities to educate and inform on Coastkeeper’s …

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Two Hours: Tell Governor Brown We Need Water Quality Results Faster

This last legislative session was good for California’s waters. Our elected officials passed a package of bills to initiate regulation on the use of our overtapped groundwater resources, — a long time in the making. …

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San Diego Bay: What’s new in the massive cleanup?

For three decades, toxins sat in the sediment at the bottom of San Diego Bay, a legacy of poor practices at the shipyards of yesteryear. What was once a thriving ecosystem went dead. Even after …

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Bioassessment: The bugs tell the story

A Look Back I grew up in San Carlos and Santee, so Mission Trails Regional Park was practically my backyard. Before the visitor’s center opened in 1995, not many people utilized the park– it felt …

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Coastkeeper’s 2013 Water Quality Monitoring Results

    Watershed Average Score Score Range Los Penasquitos Watershed 81 Good San Diego Watershed 81 Good San Luis Rey Watershed 79 Fair San Dieguito Watershed 72 Fair Carlsbad Watershed 64 Marginal Sweetwater Watershed 64 …

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Water Quality 2015: Otay Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 57, Marginal Over the course of 2015, the Otay Watershed remained the most consistent watershed in the county. Unfortunately, the water quality was consistently bad. Consistently high bacteria levels: Every sample …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: Pueblo Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 56, Marginal A few key takeaways from our Pueblo Watershed data: Chollas River sites often had very high phosphorus and ammonia Ph and nitrate levels were the only water quality indicators …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: San Dieguito Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 76, Fair Our data in San Dieguito Watershed show: Enterococcus levels were high phosphorous and ammonia concentrations, were also concerning Ammonia and Phosphorous These are nutrients people add to farms, lawns …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: Sweetwater Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 53, Marginal Our data in Sweetwater Watershed showed: Very low dissolved oxygen levels Usually high ammonia and phosphorus concentrations This is another watershed indicative of extremely low water flows creating high …

Read More

Water Quality 2015: Los Peñasquitos Watershed

Water Quality Index Score: 74, Fair Well, here it is: the most typical, average watershed in San Diego County in terms of water quality pollution and health. Our data in this watershed did not change …

Read More

Helping Local Businesses Protect Our Precious Waters

From time to time I’m asked to speak at one event or another on issues related to water quality or water supply and I almost always seize those opportunities to educate and inform on Coastkeeper’s …

Read More

Two Hours: Tell Governor Brown We Need Water Quality Results Faster

This last legislative session was good for California’s waters. Our elected officials passed a package of bills to initiate regulation on the use of our overtapped groundwater resources, — a long time in the making. …

Read More

San Diego Bay: What’s new in the massive cleanup?

For three decades, toxins sat in the sediment at the bottom of San Diego Bay, a legacy of poor practices at the shipyards of yesteryear. What was once a thriving ecosystem went dead. Even after …

Read More

Bioassessment: The bugs tell the story

A Look Back I grew up in San Carlos and Santee, so Mission Trails Regional Park was practically my backyard. Before the visitor’s center opened in 1995, not many people utilized the park– it felt …

Read More

Coastkeeper’s 2013 Water Quality Monitoring Results

    Watershed Average Score Score Range Los Penasquitos Watershed 81 Good San Diego Watershed 81 Good San Luis Rey Watershed 79 Fair San Dieguito Watershed 72 Fair Carlsbad Watershed 64 Marginal Sweetwater Watershed 64 …

Read More