PAST CHAPTER GENERAL INTEREST MEETING

Guest Speakers: Jill Zacary and Jill Murray, SB City Creeks Division

Surfrider Foundation Santa Barbara Chapter is hosted guest speakers, Jill Zachary and Jill Murray from the City of SB Creeks Division at our Chapter General Meeting Thursday, February 1 , 2007 at 7:00 PM at the Watershed Resource Center at Arroyo Burro County Park. They will give a presentation

Jill Zachary, Clean Water manger, and Jill Murray, Water Quality Project coordinator, both with the City of Santa Barbara Creeks Division, will give a presentation Focusing on the city’s local Creek and Ocean Water Quality Monitoring Program.  The Creeks Division Monitoring Program provides data to establish baselines of water quality, track long-term changes, and assess project performance. This information is needed to understand sources and routes of pollution in creeks, prioritize future projects for the Division and provide a basis for understanding the effectiveness of the current program.  The Creeks Division strives to maintain a dynamic, adaptive monitoring program that is driven by specific research questions.  Recently, the Creeks Division completed a five-year water quality report that compiles and analyzes data from 2001-2006.  The purpose of the report is to record the efforts of the Monitoring Program in a way that is meaningful to the public while also being technical.  A second purpose is to compile and synthesize the data in ways that can be used to inform decisions.  Last, the report provides an opportunity to revisit research questions based on the results obtained.