Montecito Wastewater Outflow Meets State Standards
By Kathleen Barnato, Realtor - Santa Barbara/Montecito Real Estate
(Kathleen Barnato, Your Santa Barbara & Montecito Connection)
As reported in the Daily Sound," a 2-year study of a wastewater outflow site off the cost of Montecito has determined that bacteria levels in the area are within state standards, according to Heal the Ocean. " The study was funded by a state grant in the amount of $330,000, and monitored the water off Butterfly Beach, near the Biltmore Hotel in Montecito. Hilary Hauser, director of the non-profit Heal the Ocean http://www.healtheocean.org/, was impressed with the job the Montecito Sanitary District is doing in treating waste water. The Johnson Ohama Charitable Foundation has donated additional funding to continue the analysis for an additional six months. UCSB researchers (Carter Ohlmann, Libe Washburn, oceanographers, along with Dr. Trish Holden and her team) tested the waters weekly...
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