Monitoring Elings Park Runoff

As per?

The key words here are "potential water-polluting impacts" & "largest privately funded public park in the country."
Seems like there's always an attempt to stick it to Elings Park 1 way or the other by certain people.
Even though it's a city thing, I wonder how much Janet Wolf has to do w/ this? She seems to have an issue w/ Elings Park.
As for the actual type(s) of pollutant that gives Hendry's Beach the coveted "Beach Bummer Award" the only question I have is this: What is/are the pollutant(s) found on Hendry's Beach?
If the pollutants happen to be of the "organic" nature such as coliform & such, highly unlikely they come from a dump that's been inactive since 1965 (that's 46 years!), as the bacteria in the soil would chew these up in no time & it'd be taken up by local vegetation.
If they're of the volatile organic compound nature that's highly unlikely as well since these will live up to their volatility & disperse into the atmosphere.
That leaves inorganic pollutants such as metals & polymers (type of solidified organic).
In the case of metals there would be oxides from years of exposure to natural elements.
However, if sufficient electronic devices containing compounds such as GaAs (gallium arsenide, found in computer chips) then there may be some groundwater contamination like in Silicon Valley, but it would take TONS of this stuff to do it's damage.
The organic polymers would either degrade (as a function of UV radiation & time) or stay put since they can't mobilize unless dissolved in organic solvents such as xylene or toluene.

Then there's the question: "What exactly was thrown out at the old dump?"

From what I've seen of the aftermath in the gully/trench behind the BMX track before the materials got removed in 1999, the contents included the following discarded items:

Empty propane cylinders
Washing machine
Cardboard boxes
Assorted toys, some plastic
Wood items
Metal & PVC pipes

To name a few. But most of these items, if not all, were removed upon the sealing of the ditch/gully in 1999.
It's all very fishy to me, I'm going to be keeping my eye on this 1 for sure! :) henry

"As for the actual type(s) of pollutant that gives Hendry's Beach the coveted "Beach Bummer Award" the only question I have is this: What is/are the pollutant(s) found on Hendry's Beach?"
-- hank

The tests are based on levels of "fecal indicator bacteria" (total coliform, fecal coliform, enterococcus).

Due to State and County budget cutbacks, SB Channel Keeper has graciously taken over year-round beach water testing from the County. Test results here:

http://www.sbck.org/index.php?option=...

Groundwater contamination from nearby sewer lines or buried chemicals that bacteria feed on might be a contender?

Also, all the bird poop from the bridge over the arroyo leading to Hendry's might be a factor :) henry

"Even though it's a city thing, I wonder how much Janet Wolf has to do w/ this?"
-- hank/henry

Argument by innuendo. Old Joe McCarthy would be proud.

Dumps in close proximity to the ocean were a really bad idea. Good that they have all been closed. Oh.........forgot, the County still dumps almost 200,000 tons a year of trash in a coastal canyon a few hundred feet from the ocean up at Gaviota. Oh, ya......most of it is unlined also.

Starly88 - You are both right and wrong. Right: Dumps in close proximity to the ocean were a really bad idea. Sadly, there are literally hundreds of them in California (several adjacent to the SF Bay and all unlined). Many are unmapped - we don't know precisely where they are. That practice ceased after the 1989 passage of Subtitle D, which addressed for the first time how landfills should be sited, operated, lined, monitored, how leachate and gas will be managed, etc. Wrong: The active working face (where they actually dump trash) at Tajiguas is lined and has been for decades. It is an impressive, very well run & state-of-the art facility. You might want to contact them and ask for a tour.

Says Me: "Argument by innuendo. Old Joe McCarthy would be proud."

HAHAHAHA! Grasping @ conservative straws again there Says? How typically "progressively" hateful of you.
Read the statement more carefully this time: "Even though it's a city thing, I WONDER how much Janet Wolf has to do w/ this?"
See that little "?" @ the end? It's a question, not a statement you silly goose.
Jeez, for somebody that claims I dropped out of elementary school your reading & comprehension skills are WAY sub-par. How typically "progressive" of you Says :) henry

I think I must be living in a parallel universe or on another planet - I see the following:

Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, Heal the Ocean, Hillary Hauser, Matt Fore, Santa Barbara Environmental Services

no Janet Wolf, and nothing at all to do with her either directly or indirectly.

Tabatha: "I think I must be living in a parallel universe or on another planet - I see the following:

Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, Heal the Ocean, Hillary Hauser, Matt Fore, Santa Barbara Environmental Services

no Janet Wolf, and nothing at all to do with her either directly or indirectly."

Why are you living in a parallel universe, I though you lived in Santa Barbabra, the place where politicos get mixed in in issues just to make a point for themselves (the way Janet Wolf did w/ Elings Park about the Bikefest)?
I didn't say she's involved, what I ASKED was this: "I WONDER how much Janet Wolf has to do w/ this?"
Notice the EMPHASIS on WONDER. You provide an answer, but how realiable IS that answer, based on previous shenanigans? :) henry

"See that little "?" @ the end? It's a question, not a statement you silly goose."
-- hank/henry

I recognize a rhetorical question when I see one. Also, I stand by my assertion of innuendo since it is defined as "An indirect or subtle, usually derogatory implication in expression; an insinuation." There is no reason whatsoever to bring Wolf in on this other than to taint by association - another tactic Old Joe McCarthy would smile down upon. Keep it classy, hank.