Keeping Watch for Clean Water
The State Water Resources Control Board recently issued an order that overturned efforts to reduce nitrate fertilizer pollution discharges into groundwater supplies and surface waters in the Central Coast Region, which includes most of Santa Barbara County and all of San Luis Obispo and Monterey Counties.Nitrate contamination is widespread and increasing along the Central Coast…. Read more
As Channelkeeper continues to build upon its legacy of clean water work, we are pleased to present our new Strategic Framework, an outline that will guide our conservation work for the next five years. This document represents the distillation of a year’s worth of discussions, research, stakeholder analysis, and planning into five strategic goals. It… Read more
Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and the Ecological Rights Foundation recently reached a settlement agreement with Hot Line Construction in a lawsuit concerning a contaminated utility pole storage facility site in Goleta.Between 2014 and 2019, Hot Line Construction stored wooden utility poles treated with the toxic chemical pentachlorophenol at a site near the Santa Barbara Airport without… Read more
On June 5th, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear a challenge to a court-ordered prohibition on offshore fracking in federal waters off the California coast.The Supreme Court’s decision leaves in place last year’s ruling by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the federal government violated the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act,… Read more
Curious about Channelkeeper’s clean water work and legacy of environmental accomplishments? Check out this 805 Focus interview hosted by Dr. Cynder Sinclair. During the 20-minute segment, Executive Director Ted Morton highlights the organization’s community education and water quality monitoring programs, as well as its political advocacy and energetic corps of volunteers.Click here to view.