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If your holiday food preparations end up generating more cooking grease than usual, or you have unused or unwanted cooking oil, don't poor it down the drain or dump it into the stormdrains! Go to Too Toxic To Trash page for proper disposal of cooking oil and grease. While there, take a look at how to properly dispose of household hazardous waste, such as chemicals, fertilizers, and automotive fluids! Clean water starts with you! Teachers! The Banana Slug String Band is conducting free school assemblies entitled "We All Live Upstream" in San Mateo County elementary schools. Rock Steady Science is presenting "Water Pollution Prevention and Your Car" in High Schools around the county. Also check our teachers page for resources and ideas related to pollution prevention as you plan your new school year! 2011 Fall P3 Newsletter Now Available! Watershed Groups Guide Find San Mateo County groups working on watershed stewardship projects. Volunteer opportunities and events listed. Spanish-language Stormwater Brochure available Usted es la Solución para Prevenir la Contaminación del Agua que va a los Desagües
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In the News updated January 24, 2012
SMCWPPP In the News: PRESS RELEASE 1.11.12 WINTER RAINS WASH POLLUTANTS INTO LOCAL WATERS PRESS RELEASE 10.28.11 SAN MATEO COUNTY STORMWATER GUIDEBOOK WINS NATIONAL ASLA AWARD PRESS RELEASE 10.27.11 COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS NOW AVAILABLE California Coastal Cleanup Day is Saturday September 17. Coastsider.com, September 14, 2011 Millbrae Volunteers Needed for 2011 California Coastal Cleanup Day. Millbrae Patch, August 29, 2011 PRESS RELEASE 8.29.11 CALIFORNIA COASTAL CLEANUP DAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17, 2011 Survey pinpoints sources of trash in San Francisco Bay. San Mateo County Times, June 20, 2011 Tips for an Eco-Friendly Car Wash. Redwood City Patch. May 28, 2011 County seeks compensation for stormwater efforts. San Francisco Examiner. February 24, 2011. EPA grant to help identify sources of PCBs, a potent carcinogen, in San Francisco Bay, San Jose Mercury News, November 28, 2010 Volunteers Scour The Coast to Keep Beach Clean, Half Moon Bay Review, September 23, 2010 Worst Trash Spots Along Waterways in San Mateo County Spotlighted, San Mateo County Times, September 21, 2010 San Mateo County Seeks End to Cigarette Butt Litter, San Mateo County Times, January 16, 2010. Green Streets and Parking Lots: Coming Soon to Cities Near You, Cal Planner, American Planning Association California, July-August 2009. Past Press releases: 11.1.10 COMMUNITY ACTION GRANTS AVAILABLE TO ENHANCE AND PROTECT WATER QUALITY 9.7.10 CALIFORNIA COASTAL CLEANUP DAY SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2010 5.24.10 REDWOOD CITY HONORING DOZENS OF NEWLY-CERTIFIED "GREEN GARDENERS" 4.20.10 SPRING INTO ACTION: Bay Area Stormwater Agencies Ask Consumers to Exercise Caution When Choosing Pesticides 9.10.09 CALIFORNIA COASTAL CLEANUP DAY CELEBRATES 25TH ANNIVERSARY 7.28.09 LOCAL “GREEN STREETS” GUIDEBOOK WINS STATEWIDE PLANNING AWARD 5.18.09 BAY AREA PROGRAM HELPS PEOPLE CONTROL COMMON PESTS WITHOUT HARM TO WATER QUALITY 4/13/09 EARTH DAY EVENT INCLUDE FREE RECYCLING OF CFL’s Contact:PollutionPrevention@co.sanmateo.ca.us ### In the News Watershed, Stormwater, and Pollutants Articles: Mountain Lake's gunk to be cleared in Presidio. It is a good thing that nobody attempts to swim in Mountain Lake. The 4-acre pond on the southern boundary of the Presidio of San Francisco is sloppy with toxic gunk. January 24, 2012. San Mateo County isn't ready to stop spraying roadside weeds, supervisors say. Although some residents have long implored San Mateo County to stop spraying roadside weeds, a Board of Supervisors committee indicated Tuesday that reducing the amount of herbicides used is more practical. January 18, 2012. Santa Cruz County moves to curtail spread of electronic waste. Trying to keep aging laptops and big-screen televisions out of Nigerian and Chinese bonfires, Santa Cruz County is trying to get a better handle on what to do with an ever-growing pile of electronic waste. January 11, 2012. EPA cracks down on Redwood City company polluting San Francisco Bay. A Bay Area metals recycling company that drew widespread attention -- and a fine -- for a fire that sent a huge plume of black, acrid smoke into the air over Silicon Valley five years ago is facing new pollution charges from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. January 10, 2012. From garbage to fuel: Santa Cruz nonprofit pushes program to turn plastic pollution into power. Six months ago the Santa Cruz nonprofit Clean Oceans Project teamed up with a Japanese manufacturer and a San Jose distributor, E-N-ergy, to bring plastic-to-fuel technology to the Monterey Bay. December 30, 2011. Oil from 2007 spill surprisingly toxic to fish, scientists report. Thick, tarry fuel oil disgorged into San Francisco Bay from a damaged cargo ship in 2007 was surprisingly toxic to fish embryos, devastating the herring population that feeds seabirds, whales and the bay's last commercial fishery, scientists reported Monday. December 27, 2011. Cities battle proposal to tighten rules on storm water runoff. Anonymous Lake Tahoe activists are marketing an odd keepsake – a calendar displaying photos of pipes dumping road water runoff into the lake. The storm drain calendar, produced by the mysterious Tahoe Pipe Club, features 12 outlets that activists contend are poisoning the lake with toxins and fine particles. December 26, 2011. Diesel spill reaches Berkeley marina; no reports of wildlife damage. Diesel fuel that overflowed a storage tank on the UC Berkeley campus over the weekend made its way three miles down a creek to the Berkeley marina on Monday, but there were no reports that wildlife had been harmed. December 13, 2011. Waste Management faces $882,200 fine in connection with San Jose landfill pollution. The owner of a San Jose landfill is facing one of the largest water pollution fines ever issued in the Bay Area by state regulators, following a spill of thousands of gallons of foul-smelling liquid last December into a creek at Almaden Quicksilver County Park. December 11, 2011. Federal officials search for best way to guide returning salmon. How could self-respecting salmon miss the left turn from the San Joaquin River into their home Merced River? A fish barrier now helps guide them. It's part of a restoration of the San Joaquin and its salmon runs, which died decades ago after Friant Dam was built. November 28, 2011. Algae blooms' sudden spread stumps scientists. Marine scientists are trying to find out why previously unknown blooms of toxic algae are suddenly proliferating along the California coast, killing wildlife and increasing the risk of human sickness. November 27, 2011. Candlestick Point wetland reclaimed as key habitat. The newest restored wetland in San Francisco was little more than a mound of mud surrounded by water Tuesday, but the messy quagmire was like gold to Elizabeth Goldstein. November 23, 2011.
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