| Clean
Water Act Section 319 (h) Grants |
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Project
Name
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Project
Description
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Watershed
/ Waterbody
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Agency
- Contact
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Phone
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Contract
Total ($)
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1.
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BeachKeeper
Citizen Monitoring Program |
Baykeeper project
educates and trains community volunteers to collect quantifiable
water quality data that is used to identify and eliminate individual
sources of urban runoff. The project will continue this project
by conducting a citizen monitoring of over 3000 storm drains that
flow to the Santa Monica Bay, focusing on source monitoring at
the most severely polluting storm drains. |
Santa
Monica Bay/ Ballona Creek |
Santa Monica
BayKeeper
Angie Bera |
(310) 305-9645 |
$82,866.00
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2.
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Beachkeeper
Citizen Volunteer Monitoring Project |
The goal of
the citizen monitoring project is to involve residents in proactive
identification of pollution from stormdrains in communities, giving
the Baykeeper an opportunity to eliminate the source of this pollution
before more harm is done to the Santa Monica Bay. The objectives
of this project are 1) increase the number of volunteer Baykeepers
by 50% to a total citizen monitoring force of 100, 2) expand water
sampling done by the volunteers from twice a year to four times
each year and modify the analytic plan to include total organic
carbon(TOC) and heavy metal analysis |
Santa
Monica Bay |
Santa Monica
BayKeeper
Heather George (or Julie Price) |
(310) 305-9645 |
$38,790.00
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3.
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Calleguas Water
Quality Monitoring Program |
Two year project
to implement citizen water monitoring in the Calleguas Creek Watershed
to determine the effectiveness of management practices designed
to manage nutrient, pesticide and sediment runoff. The project
will also quantify the extent of water quality improvement. |
Calleguas
Creek Watershed |
Wishtoyo Foundation
Damon Wing |
(805) 382-4540 |
$80,680.00
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4.
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Clean Marina
and In-Water Hull Cleaner Certification Program |
The goals of
the Clean Marina Program and an In-Water Hull Cleaner Certification
Program programs are to: 1) raise awareness among hull cleaners
and marina operators regarding the effects that certain boating
activities have on water quality; 2) promote the implementation
of boat-related best management practices (BMPs) and less-toxic
products; and 3) promote to the boating community “green” businesses
which use BMPs, reduce pollutant discharges and use environmentally-friendly
products. The Santa Monica Bay Restoration Foundation (SMBRF) will
partner with several organizations to successfully coordinate and
implement these two pilot programs. |
Santa
Monica Bay |
Santa Monica
Bay Restoration Foundation
Joel Hanson |
(213) 576-6645 |
$84,929.00
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5.
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Community-Based
Watershed Pollution Prevention Partnership Program |
The project
consist of developing and implementing a watershed-wide environmental
justice and public awareness program that will assist youth, residents
and businesses to understand their role in improving water quality,
and include the implementation of nonpoint source pollution control
strategies through the establishment of pollution prevention partnerships
with local community-based organizations among others. |
Compton
Creek/Los Angeles River |
California GreenWorks
Michael Meador |
(714) 523-7292 |
$250,000.00
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6.
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East Fork San
Gabriel Litter Abatement Project |
The project
proposes to install 40 trash dumpsters and 46 bilingual diagrammatical
signs, deploy restoration/educational crews to conduct water quality
testing and educate forest visitors, and will coordinate and deploy
volunteers to perform massive clean-ups. |
San
Gabriel River/East Fork |
California Environmental
Project
Scott Mathes |
(818) 500-1025 |
$68,000.00
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7.
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Los Angeles
RiverWatch Volunteer Monitoring Project |
Monitor the
Los Angeles River water quality at 60 sites over a twelve month
period. Survey the biota of the Los Angeles River in those areas
that are not concrete lined channels. Produce the first State of
the Los Angeles River Report. To oversee the development and implementation
of volunteer monitoring on the Los Angeles River by Friends of
the Los Angeles River. Also, to provide guidance on State of the
River Report development, sampling procedures for monitoring the
whole main stem of the LA River, monitoring QA/QC, database development,
and final report preparation. Final goal is to develop a successful
and long-term volunteer monitoring program on the LA River. |
Los
Angeles River |
Friends of the
Los Angeles River
Joan Greenwood |
(323) 223-0585 |
$38,820.00
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8.
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Los Angeles
River Street-End Biofiltration |
The project
will design and install non-structural Best Management Practices
(BMPs) to filter nonpoint pollutants, enhance habitat and provide
education and stewardship opportunities to promote water quality
improvement |
Los
Angeles River |
North East Trees
Claire Robinson |
(323) 441-8618 |
$266,350.00
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9.
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Los Angeles
Volunteer Monitoring and Education Project |
The goals of
the project are: to provide an illustrated field guide for sampling
and analysis performed by volunteer citizens, to encourage and
increase public involvement, and to maximize data quality from
citizens in volunteer monitoring programs, to expand and coordinate
seasonal water monitoring "snapshot" efforts, to assist groups
in data entry and transmittal, to increase public awareness and
stewardship of our water resources, and recommend revisions to
the Southern California Volunteer Monitoring Quality Assurance
Project Plan. |
Region-Wide |
Southern California
Marine Institute
Crystal Brandt |
(310) 519-3172 |
$99,000.00
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10.
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Lower Zuma Creek
and Lagoon Restoration Project |
To enhance existing
habitats, plant more than six thousand native plants to increase
habitat diversity and to expand freshwater marsh and willow riparian
habitats. It also includes the establishment of a sycamore alluvial
woodland/coast scrub habitat and development of interpretive area
and trails that would serve to educate the public regarding the
biological and cultural resources of the site. |
Lower
Zuma Creek/ Lagoon |
Santa Monica
Bay Restoration Foundation
Marianne Yamaguchi |
(213) 576-6614 |
$77,950.00
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11.
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Malibu Creek
Watershed Protection and Education Project |
The City of
Calabasas is implementing a multi-component education/technical
transfer program for the upper Malibu Creek watershed. The project
is made up of three distinct but complementary components: 1) Citizen's
Volunteer Monitoring Program; 2) Resource Information Exchange
Center; 3) Children's Environmental Theater Program. The overall
project is designed to inform the public about nonpoint sources
of pollution in the upper Malibu Creek watershed and provide information
on how we can protect the entire watershed. |
Las
Virgenes Creek/Malibu Creek |
City of Calabasas
Heather Lee Merenda |
(818) 878-4242 |
$93,500.00
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12.
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Malibu Creek
Watershed Protection Project |
To reduce nutrients
and sediments from entering the streams of the Malibu Creek Watershed
in 2 ways: 1) through an education and demonstration program to
teach horse owners about properly managing horses in the watershed;
and 2) through a streambank stabilization and re-vegetation program. |
Malibu
Creek |
Santa Monica
Mountains Resource Conservation District
Lenora Kirby |
(310) 455-1030 |
$171,000.00
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13.
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Phase I:Callaguas
Creek Watershed Treatment Project |
This project
consist of demonstrating BMPs designed to implement land treatments
(mulching and cover crops) and streambank stabilization techniques
(streambank shaping and biotechnical slope stabilization) to control
pollution from erosion and orchard farms. Multi-year monitoring
will evaluate the effectiveness of the methods employed. The results
will be presented to other growers in the area, in an effort to
alter long-standing practices of clearing ground in lemon orchards
through manual means or herbicide application, and streambank stabilization
utilizing rip-rap and concrete. |
Calleguas
Creek |
Ventura County
Resource Conservation District
Peggy Rose |
(805) 386-4990 |
$195,000.00
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14.
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Phase II:Calleguas
Creek Watershed Treatment Project |
The primary
objective of Phase II is to demonstrate innovative, cost-effective,
environmentally sensitive grade and streambank stabilization methods
to control soil erosion and sedimentation. The project will demonstrate
the use of combinations of geotextiles and vegetation identified
during Phase I. Project work shall consist of design and construction
of streambed and streambank stabilization structures, and the development
and implementation of a restoration plan. |
Calleguas
Creek |
Ventura County
Resource Conservation District
Peggy Rose |
(805) 386-4990 |
$182,535.00
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15.
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Phase III:Calleguas
Creek Watershed Treatment Project |
This project
is phase III of the water quality improvement efforts and consists
of implementing BMPs identified and evaluated under phase III,
development of a regional stream bank and bed permit streamlining
program, information and technology transfer. |
Calleguas
Creek |
Ventura County
Resource Conservation District
Patricia Oliver |
(805) 386-4685 |
$297,400.00
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16.
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Septic Tank
Nutrient Removal Project |
This project
is designed to demonstrate the nutrient and pathogen removal processes
of advanced individual disposal systems from several different
manufacturers. Their efficiencies will be compared to other treatment
systems to determine the possibility of septic system replacement. |
Calleguas
Creek |
Ventura Regional
Sanitation District
Mark Capron |
(805) 658-4606 |
$129,703.00
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17.
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Stream Team/Horse
and Stable BMPs Project |
Project is a
continuation of the citizen water quality monitoring efforts in
Malibu Creek Watershed and include site selection and BMPs implementation
to reduce runoff from horse stables. |
Malibu
Creek |
Heal the Bay
Shelley Luce |
(310) 453-0395 |
$109,200.00
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18.
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Ventura River
Stream Team |
This project
consist of developing and implementing a citizen-volunteer stream
walk and water quality monitoring program to collect and analyze
physical and chemical water quality parameters on a monthly basis. |
Ventura
River |
Santa Barbara
ChannelKeeper
Jessie Altstatt |
(805) 563-3399 |
$94,300.00
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19.
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Wellhead Protection
Demonstration Project |
To identify
and properly abandon at least 100 groundwater wells in the Oxnard
Plain which have the highest potential for degradation of drinking
water aquifers. |
Oxnard
Plain/Calleguas Creek |
Fox Canyon Groundwater
Mgmt. Association
Lowell Preston |
(805) 648-9204 |
$255,000.00
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