Urban Run-off & Whose in-bed with Whom
Wow Wade. I did not know you were such an enviromental scientist. I am a big fan of artificial turf or California Turf as some referred to it prior to our recent rains. My dogs love it and their mess cleans up real easily as it dries well with no watering required for our plastic.
Your point about run-off and water quality relates to why I said, "Surferrider has no idea who they are bed with". Water pollution in their precious marine life protected areas will be the next issue the enviros will try to address. Human urine and sunscreen will be added to list of dangerous chemicals you noted in your novel. We will have to install low-flow as well as high volume storm water retention basins in an effort to keep all human contaminants out of the MPAs. Human contaminats come from and created by those destructive humans and they must be kept out of MPAs as well.
Unless we band together and fight the lack of openess in the MLPA process we are allowing the first step of a process to ban all human contact and impose serious and very expensive means to protect the proposed MPAs. Once you start down a slippery slope it is very hard to reverse course and regain your footing. We currently have one foot on that slippery slope and if we left the recently completed SC MLPA process we will have both feet and that ice covered slope.
The Children's Pool is gone as we have let it go to the dogs and they have ruined this beutifully created swimming pool. We can't sit back and let the MPAs become the next Children's Pool with no human contact allowed. I landed a paddle at the children's Pool last month but I would not swim into the pool. I predict that we will not be allowed to swim in Bird Rock and Laguna Beach by 2013 if we don't now take a stand.
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