To solve the problem of polluted runoff , we need to change many of our individual and societal lifestyle habits.
More oil ends up in the ocean from runoff than from tanker spills.
Use nontoxic household products. Reduce your water use, especially during heavy rain events when local sewage treatment plants get overloaded. Postpone your washing machine loads when it's raining. Exercise your civic and political rights to make sure that local development does not result in more polluted runoff in your watershed. Air pollution that settles in the coastal watershed and washes into the storm drain system.