NEWS
By Maddison Robbins, Sixth-grader at Marine View Middle School | November 23, 2010
"What can they do? They are just kids," are some words I often hear. I always knew there was something I could do. Now I have figured it out. Earth is very delicate, if you think about it. The world is filled with natural beauty, but every hour, tons of pollution is being released into the atmosphere. Pretty soon, that pollution is going to affect the Earth greatly. Before trying to help, you have to understand how beautiful Earth really is. Over the summer, I had an experience that changed my life.
NEWS
By Britney Barnes, britney.barnes@latimes.com | September 22, 2010
Huntington Beach on Monday greenlighted a $350-million desalination plant that would have the capacity to produce 50 million gallons of fresh water a day. The City Council gave Poseidon Resources its final approvals to build a seawater desalination plant in the southeast section of Huntington Beach. The city approved the project's coastal development permits, owner participation agreement and a pipeline franchise agreement 5-0-2 with Mayor Pro-Tem Jill Hardy and Councilman Gil Coerper absent.
NEWS
By Joseph Serna | July 30, 2008
Huntington Beach’s ocean water quality is a hit-and-miss affair for swimmers, with some areas off the coast meeting national health standards year-round while others frequently missed the mark, according to a national nonprofit’s annual report. Water quality off Magnolia Street at Huntington State Beach was worse than national standards a quarter of the year, or 25% of the time, statistics from the Natural Resources Defense Council show. The nonprofit organization uses data from the Environmental Protection Agency for its annual report, released Tuesday.
NEWS
By John Scott | January 3, 2008
Local residents who attended the City Council meeting Dec. 17 left confused and disappointed about the five-year plan adopted for the Southeast Huntington Beach Redevelopment Area. That plan essentially focused on the AES plant and the Ascon/Nesi site. The plan characterized the AES plant as a ?major source of air pollution? and ?a visual impediment? in the area. It saw it as having a negative impact upon property values in the area when those properties are compared to other coastal properties.
FEATURES
By Michael Alexander | November 29, 2007
Tom Jones had been warned. As he paddled down the Northern California coast to raise awareness about plastic pollution in the ocean, several surfers alerted him about increased shark and whale activity in the Lost Coast. But the winds had died and the weary Jones decided to take a shortcut through the deeper shark- and whale-infested waters near Shelter Cove. The surfers were right. He spied a whale stalking him. He watched anxiously as it gained on him, never deviating from its course straight toward him. Then, just as it came right up to his board, the whale apparently decided the Huntington Beach man wouldn?
SPORTS
By RICK FIGNETTI | August 9, 2007
Surf City's Tom Jones started his stand-up paddleboard trek down the California coastline last Tuesday to raise awareness of the pollution problem of plastic. They say 5.76 million tons of plastic debris is in the ocean right now. And it's sad to see wildlife that have died or injured themselves because of it. Jones started right at the Oregon border, under ideal conditions, with sunny skies, hardly any swell or wind, going the first seven miles heading toward Crescent City. The water wasn't too cold, 56 degrees for that far up north.
NEWS
By VIC LEIPZIG AND LOU MURRAY | June 7, 2007
hbi-natperspectives07 A couple of months ago, I was asked to give a talk on that topic to staff at the Orange County Conservation Corps. Vic suggested I lead off with pictures of California to show what a beautiful planet we live on. I chose a picture of Bolsa Chica and one of Yosemite.
FEATURES
By Michael Alexander | June 6, 2007
Tom Jones has dragged himself out of poverty and neglect, been a champion prizefighter and run across the country at the rate of a marathon a day. After all that and more, it's hard to imagine that the Huntington Beach man's fazed by anything. But none of those feats involved sharks. Jones is training to do yet another unprecedented feat: traversing the entire California coast under his own power on a 14-foot paddleboard starting in late August, passing Santa Cruz in the height of shark season.
NEWS
By Alicia Robinson | April 5, 2007
A local water-quality advocacy group, Orange County Coastkeeper, is suggesting two Huntington Beach waterways be added to a list of those that are considered polluted and in need of cleanup. After a two-year study, Coastkeeper recommended in February that water officials put the Bolsa Chica and Wintersberg channels, as well as two channels in Newport Beach and several others in Orange County, on a list of polluted waterways. The study looked for excessive amounts of nutrients that cause algae blooms and bacteria that could be a threat to people using the waterways.
NEWS
By: Andrew Edwards | August 23, 2005
Newport Beach has hired Orange County Coastkeeper to find out how much copper and other heavy metals may be lingering in the waters near Newport's marinas -- work that could lead to restrictions on the paint most boaters use. "We will definitely start sampling in September," Coastkeeper program director Ray Hiemstra said. Coastkeeper is still designing plans to sample waters and sediments around six to eight local marinas. The city subcontracted the work to Coastkeeper after making a deal with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board to look for copper and other heavy metals in the harbor, said assistant city manager Dave Kiff.