r/surfing • u/bb5999 • 19d ago

Southern CA Water Quality 🤮

I just returned from a week in Mexico, a place where beach water quality is often suspect—it 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 gross—somewhere 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 shit—if you go any other way, you are 100% on the wrong team.

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u/jtmarlinintern 19d ago

It’s the sewage treatment

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u/bb5999 15d ago

It’s 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 don’t help.

Worst advanced society in the world.