Keep the Delta Clean Phase II
The intention of the Keep the Delta Clean Program – Phase II (KDC) provide information to the public and expand environmental services for boaters that reduce potential pollution related to recreational boating activities including installation of marina-based Oil Recycling Centers to collect used oil, oil filters, marine batteries, and oil absorbents from the boaters and local residents in the San Francisco Delta region. Pet waste stations will also be installed at marinas and along levees throughout the project area to further reduce potential sources of pathogens. Fishing line recycling stations, cigarette butt containers and materials recycling bins will also be placed at marinas and boating facilities within the project area to reduce marine debris pollution and wildlife entanglement. The effectiveness of this load reduction outreach effort will be estimated by updating the Pollution Prevention forecasting model developed in Phase I of the Keep the Delta Clean Program. An additional monitoring task of the project will characterize ambient levels of pollutants associated with recreational boating activities during high recreational-use holidays. A suite of volatile organic compounds and biological pathogens will be analyzed from targeted sites within the Delta during the Memorial Day, July 4th, Labor Day weekends. SFEI is providing assistance with updating the Pollution Prevention forecasting model and is leading the ambient screening study. Ambient water samples were collected in 2008 and the final summary report and the updated forecasting model report will be completed in 2009
Collaborator
Department of Boating and Water Ways
