Greetings!
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Please enjoy our June wrap-up!
Inland Empire Waterkeeper (IEWK) is a grassroots nonprofit water quality organization dedicated to enhancing and protecting the Upper Santa Ana River Watershed through advocacy, education, restoration and enforcement. We look forward to working with concerned citizens like you to fulfill our mission. |
| 15th Annual Secchi Disk "Dip-In"! |
 IEWK is pleased to partner with the IB program at Raney Interm. School in Corona to perform turbidity measurements with a real Secchi disk in our Waterkeeper canoe at Prado Park Lake! Each student will also be able to take readings of ammonia, nitrate, phosphate, dissolved oxygen and temperature. All results will be sent to the Dip-In database run by Kent State in Ohio.
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| Cleanup Chino Creek & Mill Creek! |
Need service hours? Does your Scout Troop need an activity? We've got 30 acres filled with trash. Call or email Autumn at (951) 689-6842 or Autumn@iewaterkeeper.org. We are putting together a list of interested groups (preferably 16+ years of age) that can be "on-call" as cleanup teams for Chino Creek & Mill Creek. If funding is confirmed, cleanups will begin late summer, early fall and must be done by Feb. 2009.
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| A.B. 2986: The CA Clean Water Act |
 What happened? On May 28, the State Assembly passed The California Clean Water Act with a vote of 45 to 31. The Assembly vote in favor of AB 2986 marks an important step to the bill's eventual passage into law as it now moves to the Senate for further consideration.
What is it? The bill requires the State and Regional Boards to assign an annual letter grade to every sewer collection system and sewage treatment plant in California in order to inform voters, rate payers, and local officials of problem systems before harmful discharges of untreated waste occur.
Who done it? San Francisco Baykeeper worked with the bill's author Assemblyman Mark Leno (D-San Francisco), co-author Assemblyman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), and co-sponsor Friends of the Earth.
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| L.E.A.P.S and Transmission Line UPDATE
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May 30th: National Marine Fisheries Service agrees with FERC's determination that project (in Decker Canyon) will not threaten or impact endangered populations of steelhead (PDF, 200 KB).
June 26th: Elsinore Valley Muni Water District's Director John Lloyd requests a vote from the Board to stop all pending permits for LEAPS. The Board voted to take the matter to legal counsel (North County Times article)
[LEAPS is the Lake Elsinore Advanced Pump Storage project that is two-fold: hydroelectric dam above Lake Elsinore in the Cleveland National Forest and 30-mile interconnect transmission line through the National Forest.] Read more HERE, or www.stopleaps.info or www.evmwd.com or www.leapsforward.org. |
