Status: Disbanded Tasks: 1) to synthesize and provide to the SAC information
about water quality programs, organizations and issues along the Santa Barbara and Ventura County coasts, the Santa Barbara channel, and the Channel Islands; 2) to provide advice on how the SAC should proceed with regard to developing a recommendation on how CINMS should address water quality threats to sanctuary resources.
Dan Shapley, Riverkeeper's
water quality program manager, said the city's residents deserve to know if their health is at risk because the public water supply was polluted.
On the environmental side, Dan Shapley,
Water Quality Program Director for Riverkeeper, applauds the governor's continued multiyear $ 2.5 billion investment in drinking water infrastructure and source water protection.
The report examined the Administration's plan to divert over a half billion dollars from New York City's
water quality program to construction of the new Tappen Zee Bridge.
He says he's noticing more agencies around the country and the world using the tracking strategy in
their water quality programs.
The document describes planned actions to expand research, education, outreach, and enforcement programs, create and enhance partnerships, improve wildlife protections, develop
a water quality program, and reduce pollution impacts from vessels.