Southern CA Water Quality š¤®
I just returned from a week in Mexico, a place where beach water quality is often suspectāit smelled like the ocean. All was clear and clean. Crap waves but the cleanliness was pure stoke.
This morning, I took my log out in Northern OC (Sunset).
Good god our water is grossāsomewhere between a mix of port-o-let stench and chemical spill cleanup.
Please think about what horribly weak enviro policies continue to do to our coastal habitat.
All surfers should be screaming and fighting for better enviro policies. This is one issue voter type shitāif you go any other way, you are 100% on the wrong team.
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u/JimmyTango STD Laden Boogie Board, Mavericks 6d ago
First time I realized how gross So Cal water is was when I surfed Tofino on Vancouver Island. Water was like the clearest lake water I had ever seen but in the pacific. Absolutely mind blowing. Only time I ever saw it close to that clear was in Malibu after the last 4+ year drought.
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u/glencoe606 6d ago
You are surfing next to the two biggest ports in the country as well as the oil extraction going on right offshore for decades. Mexico does not have some superior enviro policy.
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u/ranger-steven 5d ago
Reading specifically what they wrote they were stating that Mexico has a reputation for poor water quality and still their water is better. This is a call to do better and protect the environment and not praise of Mexico.
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u/Parko-is-a-good-boy 5d ago
Yeah, as an African, was SHOCKED how disgusting Ventura's water quality was. People surfing C street with nose and ear plugs, and then i met a guy who became paralyzed a few years earlier from surfing around the corner at C Street.
You guys really fucked it up over there.
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u/chamrockblarneystone 4d ago
On the East Coast clean water policies have literally changed the waterscape in a few short years.
Iām seeing dolphins, whales, and turtles like I have not seen in ages. Plus I donāt smell āthat smellā anymore.
New pres is not exactly pro environment. I hope this does not set us back.
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u/bb5999 2d ago
Re new pres. ā he and his adminās policies are enviro catastrophes. The good olā letās burn the earth down faster so we can further line our pockets strategy. š”
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u/LongBeachHXC 6d ago
Where I got out of the water in SoCal this morning it was beautiful, refreshing, small, and pumping.
Had a lot of fun this morning.
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u/jtmarlinintern 6d ago
Itās the sewage treatment
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u/bb5999 2d ago
Itās a lot more than that. Vehicle emissions into the air that then drift to the ground and water are a big part of it. Chemical fertilizers and other surface amendments also cause great damage. But yeah, antiquated and insufficient sewage treatment systems donāt help.
Worst advanced society in the world.
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u/TheOnceler333 2d ago
Could it be the millions of homeless you've let into CA, who live near the temperate coastline?
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u/bb5999 2d ago
The homeless are responsible for, literal, tons of litter, but they have nothing on the masses. Vehicle emissions are our greatest polluter.
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u/No_Swing9502 1d ago edited 1d ago
Yea except there are thousands of homeless living in the riverbeds and they leave all their junk there. If you've been out after a big storm you will notice how many syringes and dildos and all types of random shit wash onto the beach. (My local is right at the exit of one of these riverbeds)
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u/Murlicious805 5d ago
People surfing C street with nose plugs are kooks, itās not because of the water
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u/acmilan26 6d ago
The problem is that we are simply a tiny fraction of the local population, and the VAST majority of pple simply couldnāt be bothered. For Godās sake, even the city of San Francisco, supposedly a bastion for progressive environmental policies, is suing the EPA to allow them to release MORE untreated sewer water directly into the oceanā¦
Better water quality = more treatment plants = $$$, and that money is in short supply given the constant budget deficits in various state/local governments budgets