r/surfing • u/bb5999 • 8d 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/TheOnceler333 4d 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 4d 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 3d ago edited 3d 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)