Community Conservancy International Releases Report on Innovative Solution to Serious Beach, Ocean and River Pollution Problems Water Quality Improvement Project: Solving Water Quality Problems
WE ARE PROBLEM SOLVERS: Community Conservancy International (CCI) specializes in solving the complex problems created where people and nature intersect. Our work creates permanent public benefits, and our projects range from parks and beaches to wilderness and watersheds, and from recreational sites to mixed-use developments. Our services include strategic planning and design; fiscal, scientific, technical and engineering expertise; community collaboration; communications; research and analysis; project direction and sustained leadership. Watersheds and Polluted Waters of L.A. County
CCI Develops Innovative Methodology to Help Cities and Counties Fund Solutions to Serious Water Pollution Problems LOS ANGELES, CA - Community Conservancy International (CCI) has released its report on solutions to the serious water quality, public health and environmental problems caused by polluted urban and stormwater runoff. The Water Quality Improvement Project Report is the result of two years of research and analysis, and was developed by CCI in collaboration with a team of skilled experts. The report evaluates the potential for creating new, long-term regional funding for critically-needed water quality improvement projects in L.A. County to clean up polluted runoff. CCI identified polluted urban and stormwater runoff as an increasingly dangerous and pressing problem in California and throughout the United States, and especially in Los Angeles County, where extensive urbanization has resulted in vast areas of paved surfaces and daily high volumes of contaminated runoff. Serious water pollution from contaminated runoff plagues all of the rivers, streams, lakes, coastal waters, bays and beaches in Los Angeles County - and 300 miles of rivers and streams, 160,000 acres of lakes, both Santa Monica and San Pedro Bays and the entire county coastline are in violation of federal and state public health standards. POTENTIAL TO HELP OTHER COMMUNITIES: Community Conservancy International developed a new analytical methodology for realistically evaluating potential new regional funding sources to solve serious urban and stormwater runoff problems. CCI’s methodology can be successfully applied in any region suffering from water quality problems caused by polluted runoff. CCI’s goals include: keeping beaches, rivers and ocean waters free from infection-causing bacteria and toxic pollutants, protecting public health, preventing ocean pollution, protecting marine mammals and other aquatic life, and improving overall water quality. CCI thanks the following for their generous financial support of the Water Quality Improvement Project and for their commitment to clean water:
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