Let's not let the Peninsula politicians continue to spend hundreds of thousands of our tax dollars yearly to ensure a stable, clean Peninsula beach while they ignore the beach from Bay Shore Avenue to the Downtown Marina. We encourage him to continue to battle reducing non-point source pollution coming down our rivers. Surfrider has even grown its public awareness campaigns to the beginning of the watershed, the ski slopes, with our Snowrider campaign to make it known that activities upstream have an impact on our oceans. However, the amount of time it will take for the bureaucracy to move and ultimately change the behavior of 10 million people upstream will be too late. Our sick patient, the Long Beach shore, will have died on the operating table.
Conservation equals an end to eastward port sprawl.
Preservation means to care for what we have and not allow it to be polluted. Rehabilitation means reconfiguring the breakwater to return natural processes and increasing the quantity and quality of the habitat for marine life and humans. City officials have an opportunity to be heroes and help determine the best way to reconfigure the breakwater to benefit us all. Hopefully they will cease being obstructionists and become true stewards of our coast. I thoroughly enjoyed it as I have in the past all the information about you and your new family.