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There
is exciting news for surfers, divers, and beachgoers
in northern California coastal counties. This past
year,
Del Norte, Humboldt, and Mendocino counties began shoreline
water quality monitoring at popular beach locations.
Starting this year, from April through October, the
Environmental Health Departments for each county
will
monitor sampling locations on a weekly basis. During
the winter season there will be limited
monitoring or no monitoring. These monitoring programs
are being funded by the Environmental Protection
Agency's
National
Beach
Guidance and Performance Criteria for Recreational
Waters. Heal the Bay plans to work with the counties
to start producing weekly beach report cards for
these
locations by July 2003. The following three paragraphs
highlight each county's monitoring program.
Del
Norte County will be monitoring three locations in the
Crescent City area: Pebble Beach, Crescent City Harbor,
and Crescent Beach.
Humboldt
County monitors four locations: Trinidad State Beach
near Mill Creek, Luffenholtz Beach near Luffenholtz
Creek, Moonstone County Park (Little River State Beach)
near Little River, and Clam Beach County Park near Strawberry
Creek
Mendocino
County monitors eight locations: MacKerricher Beach
State Park at Mill Creek, MacKerricher Beach State Park
at Virgin Creek, Caspar Beach at Caspar Creek, Russian
Gulch Campground, Big River near Pacific Coast Hwy.
bridge, Navarro River at Navarro Beach Road, Van Damme
State Park at the Little River, and Greenwood Creek
Project at Greenwood Creek.
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