Oceans, Waves and Beaches

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Seldom can a person view a sewage pipe turned off. This is one of those occasions.
The Delray Beach pipe went into service in over 40 years ago. It has been discharging about nine million gallons of treated sewage per day a mile offshore.
The local sewage treatment plant was sending millions of gallons of partly treated [...]

Back in September of last year I blogged on a beach fill project going to court. In this case when I say “court” I mean it was going to a trial.
Well, that all wrapped up a few days ago.
Cutting to the chase, we won.
This was a substantial win as this case involved the town of [...]

I paddled out yesterday on a longboard and surfed Tabletops in Solana Beach. I was by myself because it was dusk and the waves were tiny.
As I sat there on a 9′8″ Bing Pintail Lightweight nabbing waist high peelers and watching a glorious late summer sunset, my mind turned to sharks. The recent attack by [...]

A beach fill project goes to court? Yes.
A few years ago I was in Lake Worth, Florida for a few hours. It was a memorable few hours. Ericka, our local maven, was showing me the area and pointing out the insanely clear water (the only water I’d ever seen this color was in Los Roques [...]

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I post our victories every month. If you want the reasoning behind this exercise, pop on over to this post “understanding victories at a glance.” Here’s this month’s batch.
West Los Angeles / Malibu Plastic Bag Ban in Malibu
In support of Heal The Bay’s effort to address the problem of plastic bag litter in the marine [...]

Central park has been estimated at having a value of $528,783,552,000. That’s… more than five hundred billion. That’s a “b” as in billion.
That makes perfect sense to me. Perfect sense. When I lived in NYC there was a clear sense of the value of open space and parks. I lived in Brooklyn and we’d often [...]

Surfrider Foundation FL May 2008 Clean Oceans Act in Florida.
The Clean Oceans Act sets up a mechanism for gambling boats to stop dumping 44 million gallons of pureed, chlorinated waste into the ocean every year. It requires gambling boats to register with DEP, pay berth facilities for waste hauling [...]

Yes, we keep track.
Why, so we know how we’re doing. We keep track so you know what we’re doing. We keep track so you’ll come alongside us and join us. We keep track so Surfrider entities all over the world can tap into a network of activist knowledge and coastal environmental practices.
We keep track because [...]