The Ventura Coastkeeper has undertaken the monumental task of developing a Monitoring Program for our local Calleguas Creek Watershed. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency considers Calleguas Creek - which supplies more than a quarter of the county's needs for drinking and irrigation water - as one of the region's most seriously damaged watersheds. Our watershed flows through five cities and their wastewater facilities, and the vast agricultural properties of Ventura County, where huge amounts of pesticides are utilized for crops. There are also unknown impacts of concrete channelization. Many pesticides have not been regulated, and agriculture has been exempt from pollution laws, which govern most other industry. Agribusiness has continually increased the amounts of chemicals used in production of foods and sod. This is just one of the many tasks a Keeper undertakes in the effort to clean up and maintain our regional waters.

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Ventura Coastkeeper water sampling in
Calleguas Creek Watershed

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