Did you know that Oregon Surfrider Foundation voluteers and chapters in Oregon operate 5 coastal water quality labs in partnership with local high schools, watershed councils, and the Oregon Coast Aquarium?
Get involved by contacting:
Curry County -
briana@oceanresourceteam.org
Charleston/Coos Bay -
gtinker1@verizon.net
Siuslaw/Forence -
m.chandler@charter.net
Newport -
wahine676@yahoo.com
Clatsop County -
troth@astoria.k12.or.us
We call this our
Blue Water Task Force Program (BWTF). All for the love of our beaches and on shoestring budgets raised through our volunteers activities and events. Oregon's Beach Monitoring Program facilitated by Department of Human Services cannot effectively cover the entire coast without the supplemental sampling, advocacy and stewardship efforts of community based programs such as BWTF. And now you can help improve our state's program and those of beach monitoring programs nationwide.
For the third year in a row, Congress is considering a bill to reauthorize the
BEACH Act. This landmark law was first championed by Surfrider Foundation a decade ago.
The Clean Coastal Environment & Public Health Act of 2009 will increase the amount of federal dollars that can be spent on beach water quality monitoring and will modernize the technology we rely on to protect the health of the beach-going public as well as expand upon tracking and cleaning up sources of beach water pollution.
Urge your members of Congress to show their support for healthy beaches and robust coastal economies by cosponsoring the Clean Coastal Environment & Public Health Act of 2009. Don't let them put this off for yet another year!