Water Quality – Clean Water Team request for support 3/13/22

Mar 13, 2022 | City Council Meetings, In The Know

The Clean Water Team is a dedicated group of Homeowner Volunteers from neighborhoods in Channel Islands Harbor that have been active in monitoring and seeking sources of the problem as well as solution and funding.
There is an agenda Item on Tuesday March 15, 2022 that comments in support of would be most appreciated!
 

Please send an email NOW for City Council meeting 3/15/22

WRITTEN COMMENTS to CITY

Submit an email to cityclerk@oxnard.org
Subject line: 3/15/22  L. 8. Channel Islands Water Quality and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Report.

Agenda Item detail:
Channel Islands Water Quality and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Report.
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council receive and file a report on water quality monitoring efforts in the Channel Islands Harbor.
Comments suggestion:
I support support the CINC Clean Water Team and request for continued water quality sampling laboratory costs, paid for by the City, County, State Water Board, and other responsible parties.
 
The issues in Mandalay Channel Islands Harbor as a whole and the contaminants eventually impact Kiddie Beach and then flow right out to the ocean. Following the closure of the Power plant the trek to the ocean is simply a longer one.
 
The residents of the various Channel Islands Harbor homeowner associations are the closest observers of this problem however they should NOT be the only parties responsible for testing and remediation of the degraded water quality in the harbor.
 
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Background

In 2018 and algal bloom occurred in Channel Islands Harbor that may have been related to the shut down of the power plant’s cooling pumps that were decommissioned on March of 2018 as part of a mandate from the California State Water Resources Control Board. At that time the City of Oxnard began nutrient sampling in the harbor and a group of volunteers came together (The Clean Water Team) comprised of volunteers who have been trained and have been using their own boats and many hours to collect samples required to continue monitoring, seeking sources of the problem as well as solutions and funding.
 
The State Water Board funded the laboratory processing costs in 2021 and that testing revealed several exceedences in areas of the Edison Canal and Mandalay Bay. As a result of those findings the Clean Water Team is requesting an extension of that funding. The volunteers from the Clean Water Team will continue to use their boats and labor hours to collect the samples, following the QAPP (Quality Assurance Project Plan) procedures, at no charge to the City.
 
It is the Water Board’s responsibility to require the dischargers (City, County MS4, VCAILG-Farm Bureau, Marina Lessees, and Dept of Transportation) to contribute to the cost of continued water quality sampling.
 
Any comments you make will support our request for continued water quality sampling laboratory costs, paid for by the City, County, State Water Board, and other responsible parties.
 
The issues in this Harbor impact Channel Islands Harbor as a whole and the contaminants eventually impact Kiddie Beach and then flow right out to the ocean. Following the closure of the Power plant the trek to the ocean is simply a longer one.
 
The residents of the various Channel Islands Harbor homeowner associations are the closest observers of this problem however they should NOT be the only parties responsible for testing and remediation of the degraded water quality in the harbor.

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THE ITEM REFERRED TO ON THIS PAGE IS:
L: INFORMATION CONSENT AGENDA

8. Public Works Department
SUBJECT: Channel Islands Water Quality and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Report.
RECOMMENDATION: That the City Council receive and file a report on water quality
monitoring efforts in the Channel Islands Harbor.
(Public Works and Transportation Committee approved 3-0)
Legislative Body: City Council
Contact: Michael Wolfe, (805) 385-8055

ITEM 8: 8. Channel Islands Water Quality and Quality Assurance Project Plan (QAPP) Report.
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