Keep sharing your love for the ocean and make a difference to our local marine ecosystems in the Santa Barbara Channel at our next Rincon Parkway Cleanup on the second Saturday of the month!
Our Core Volunteers and Sydney and Aurora
Photo by Juli Marciel
The day before Summer Solstice, our cleanup brought out the sunshine, 23 volunteers, and a mama duck and her duckling. While Jens wheeled around on his scooter, Matt and Emily teamed up to pull trash out of the water, including a nasty piece of styrofoam.
Matt and Emily with the wretched chunk of styrofoam
Thanks to the mother/daughter teams from National Charity League Santa Clarita and our other great volunteers for pulling 798 pounds of trash from the wetlands. Thanks also to Sydney for conducting a survey about the cleanup, and to Aurora from CAUSE for doing outreach about decommissioning the Ormond Beach Generating Station.
Mama Duck and her duckling
Do you part by joining us at our next Ormond Beach Cleanup!
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Big thanks to the 64 community volunteers who picked up 89 pounds of trash, 48 pounds of recycling, and 1,500 cigarette butts at C. St. on June 27! We had a great morning and spoke with lots of community members about our important action alerts to oppose new offshore drilling. 🌊💙☀️
Join us at our next C Street Cleanup!
Planting Abronia and Eschscholzia
What a productive day! Wyatt joined us for his first volunteer day and helped pull non-native European Sea Rocket, and plant native Beach Poppies and Red Sand Verbena (thanks to Growing Works Nursery for the plants).
While Brian and Jason worked on eradicating a highly invasive Tamarisk, members of a local Circle K International club eradicated a huge patch of ice plant and made sure it ended up in the dumpster provided by the city. Thanks to all the volunteers!
Help us restore this critical habitat – we meet in Port Hueneme on the first Saturday of each month at 9 AM. Sign up here!
Thank you so very much to the AMAZING volunteers from PathPoint in Thousand Oaks who have chosen to help keep trash and cigarette butts out of our ocean and off of the Promenade and the beach from the Pier to the River on a weekly basis. Surfrider so appreciates this dedication to caring for our beautiful environment.
We follow ocean water quality reports at the vcsafe beaches app from Ventura County Environmental Health Division weekly during our off season to ensure ocean water quality state standards are being met. Contact with ocean water with high bacteria counts may cause waterborne illness. June water quality reports indicated low risk of contracting waterborne illness from any unsafe ocean water conditions.
In June, we also began surveying and bio-assessing the Ventura River at recreational sites for benthic algae growing in the river that might release cyanotoxins that under certain conditions might cause freshwater waterborne illness. For more information about freshwater harmful algae blooms, click this link.
For questions about volunteering or other concerns, please contact bwtf@ventura.surfrider.org
Paul Jenkin talking about the Matilija Dam
Photo by Marie Martin
On June 14, Paul Jenkin, Ventura Campaign Coordinator for Surfrider, and Jeff Palmer, staff to Supervisor Matt LaVere, escorted a group of 45 people to Matilija Dam.
We were joined by representatives from the Matilija Coalition and the local Barbareño/Ventureño Band of Mission Indians. Paul and Jeff talked about the past, present, and future of the dam and the challenges facing the removal (slated for 2035).
More information can be found at:
http://matilija-coalition.org/