Dear Ocean Lover,

Valentine’s Day is just around the corner and we cannot help but think of our dear friends who have shown their love of the ocean all through the last year and then some!
 
In February – just in time for Valentine’s Day! – Heal the Ocean will be launching our report, Ocean Wastewater Discharge in the State of California Report and Inventory, now being reviewed by scientists and political experts. The publication of the Inventory, announced at Heal the Ocean’s 2009 event, is several months behind schedule as it goes through review, because the finalization of the report involves the design of Heal the Ocean’s 2010 campaign for the reclamation of wastewater now being discharged into the Pacific Ocean from the Oregon border to San Diego/Tijuana.

The Inventory has also been expanded to include the subject of the chemicals that are bypassing standard wastewater treatment and escaping into the ocean and the environment. Our Inventory contains a discussion of those chemicals as well as treatment needed for each, and how our policymakers must upgrade “state standards” for wastewater and biosolids.

Our upcoming newsletter will explain how we, the public, can help immediately to counteract this chemical bypass problem by making informed choices about the personal care products we use, as well as other items that contain the harmful chemicals that now go down the drain and out to sea.

In 2010 Heal the Ocean will also continue to tackle storm water and landfill pollution of the ocean. We do this work with an important goal in mind: to find a reasonable way, as soon as possible, to stop the pollution of the ocean we all love.
We so appreciate, and need, your help. Thank you!

Thank you for helping,