Blog #18

Part 2:
Research Questions:
What are the effective programs in San Diego that help keep the waters clean?
How can we help keep our water programs up and going so that our beaches can stay clean in the future?

Resources:
*Video Camera: for footage on clean water programs (Point Loma wastewater facility, and other water cleaning facilities that I will research)
*Voice recorder: interviews on Project Clean Water representatives, water cleaning facilities people, City representatives, etc.
*Camera: take pictures of equipment, the facilities, to produce good quality photos for the video or article i plan on doing
*Computer: Video editing/article which ever i decide to do
*Transportation: to get to where i need to go

People needed:
* I have not yet scheduled and researched who exactly i need to contact but i will get this up as soon as possible. I'll contact the facilities and see what information they can provide me
* City council, Representatives from the city of San Diego

Questions:
(Representatives of the Facilities)
* How long has this foundation treated ocean water? When did it start?
* Quality of the water before it enters the treatment then after? Examples

Beach Project Research Quesitons

What different programs are there in San Diego that help keep the waters clean?

I found a really useful website about all the different water programs in San Diego country. They offer graphs and maps and other useful info that are reliable and I think that this website should be the main website that our class should look at.
http://www.projectcleanwater.org/index.html

The website provides reports from different years and different areas of San Diego and the water quality. I'm planning on using this website so that i can produce an article on all different aspects of Project Clean Water like the different water programs, how they affect the beaches and the water, what technology they use, how they actually use it to keep the water clean, etc.

This website also provides the Laws of the beaches here in San Diego county and i think it would be helpful for everyone in the class. Here's the link that provides the laws and regulations of the different areas of San Diego:

http://www.projectcleanwater.org/html/current-law.html

The information below is just a little document that i found stating the areas and major impacts around it. I choose the area around our HTHMA just as an example. This is an example of what the website provides.

Hydrologic Unit 908.10 - 908.32
Hydrologic Areas:
Point Loma 908.1
San Diego Mesa 908.2
National City 908.3
Major Water Bodies: Chollas Creek, Paleta Creek, and San Diego Bay
CWA 303(d) List:
Chollas Creek: copper, lead, zinc, cadmium, coliform bacteria, stormwater toxicity San Diego Bay: coliform bacteria, benthic community effects, copper, sediment toxicity (discharges from several source basins contribute to impairments)
Major Impacts: Surface water quality degradation, habitat degradation, sediment toxicity in San Diego Bay, and sewer overflows
Constituents of Concern: trace metals and other toxic substances, and coliform bacteria
Sources / Activities: urban runoff

How can we help keep our water programs up and going so that our beaches can stay clean in the future?

Once again the website above provides this information for this research question. This link provides the different programs and shows what you can do to help out. It gives you different ways to take action and it provides contact info so that it's easy to participate. It offers dates for meetings and other things along that area.

Here's a few programs:

STUDIES, INFORMATION, & WORK PRODUCTS
Regional Workgroup and sub-workgroup Assignment FY 2008-09 (July 2008)
Updated Model SUSMP Presentation (July 2008)
Regional Strategy for the Regulation of Mobile Businesses presentation (November 2007)
Potential Regional Infrastructure Investments – SANDAG presentation (November 2007)
2007 Wildfires: Impacts to Copermittee Programs presentation (November 2007)
Regional Residential Education Program Update (September 2007)
Integrated Regional Watershed Management Plan Update (September 2007)
Regional Reporting and Assessment Standards Update (September 2007)
Proposed Fiscal Year 2007-08 Regional Shared Costs presentation (March 2007)
San Diego IRWM Plan Overview presentation (July 2006)
Vector - Stormwater Presentation (November, 2006)
Fire Sprinkler Discharge presentation (July 2006)
Porous Pavement and Model Municipal Operations Center Grant presentation (July 2006)
City of Poway, Structural BMPs (July 2006)
2004-2005 Regional Urban Runoff Monitoring Program Update (March 16, 2006)
Monitoring Program Redesign, 2006 Permit Draft (ROWD Submittal Information) (March 16, 2006)
Common Ground Website Introduction Presentation (January 19, 2006) As see the demonstration website @ www.sdbay.sdsu.edu.
2003-2004 Regional Urban Runoff Monitoring Program Update (March 17, 2005)
UC Coop's IPM presentation (March 17, 2005)
Alliance for Compliance Presentation (July 22, 2004)

I'm actually planning to provide flyers maybe advertise so that i can spread the word of the programs and how to help keep our waters in San Diego clean. I feel as if i can actually have an impact by spreading around information and i plan to do more research that i can provide the community.