$1.5 MILLION GRANT TO HELP CLEANUP AT KIDDIE BEACH POLLUTION PLAGUES ENCLOSED SHORE.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer OXNARD - A $1.5 million state grant may lead to a cure for one of the most polluted pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. beaches in Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, . Ventura County officials plan to spend the money on a scientific study and a circulation system at Kiddie kid·die or kid·dy n. pl. kid·dies Slang A small child. kiddie Noun Informal a child Beach, where the sluggish water consistently fails to meet state quality standards. ``Presently, nobody can say definitively why we have these problems,'' said Christy Madden mad·den v. mad·dened, mad·den·ing, mad·dens v.tr. 1. To make angry; irritate. 2. To drive insane. v.intr. To become infuriated. , who chairs the county Kiddie Beach Task Force. A $118,000 study last year pointed to several likely sources of pollution at the beach, including animal feces feces or excrement or stools Solid bodily waste discharged from the colon through the anus during defecation. Normal feces are 75% water. The rest is about 30% dead bacteria, 30% indigestible food matter, 10–20% cholesterol and other fats, , trash and bait dumping. The environmental group Health the Bay ranked the popular man-made beach as one of the dirtiest beaches on its annual report cards. Despite the problems, the beach remains popular, attracting quite a number of people on Mother's Day, Madden said. Staff hope to present before the end of the fiscal year paperwork for the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. to execute the grant agreement and have the funding in place, she said. The grant from the State Clean Beach Initiative is in two installments. The first installment of $705,000 will cover the cost of ongoing programs at the beach, such as the removal of feral cats and diversion of birds. The money also will pay for an environmental analysis and design of the water circulation system, which will be built with the remaining $795,000, Madden said. Currently, permanent signs in English and Spanish at Kiddie Beach inform beachgoers of the history of water quality problems and advise them to avoid contact with the ocean water. Signs also are posted whenever the bacteria level in the ocean exceeds state standards. |
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