Edhat Staff
Goleta Beach (file photo)
Source: County of Santa Barbara
Goleta Beach waters will remain closed over the Memorial Day weekend. The firm Geosyntec has been retained by the County of Santa Barbara to provide professional guidance on options to expedite clearing of the waters at Goleta Beach and allowing the waters to be open to the community for safe use. The waters at Goleta Beach have been closed since January 11, 2018 due to heightened levels of bacteria including coliform, fecal coliform and enterococcus.
Santa Barbara County Environmental Health Services ocean monitoring sample reports for this week indicate water quality at Goleta Beach and Hammond’s Beach to contain bacterial levels exceeding one or more health standards. Goleta Beach waters remain closed and Hammond’s beach waters are on warning status. Appropriate signage has been posted at both beach areas to assure the public is informed.
Ocean water sampling results are updated weekly and available on Public Health Department website under Environmental Health Services atwww.sbcphd.org/ehs/ocean.htm.
Word on street is Wolf is keeping entire beach closed on purpose to punish Montecito….Small leaders and their self serving brand of leadership must be voted out of office. Thank goodness Wolf is retiring! Unfortunately Perotte running for mayor in Goleta. How much does she still owe for taking all that health insurance? Last I heard it was about $20,000,,,,and she was paying $30 every two weeks. Wake up Goleta she is going to stick the citizens of the city with these costs!
Yes. Punishing Montecito by allowing them to dump all their toxic mud on our beach. How about we truck it all back and dump it on their beach?
“Word on the street” is just another euphemism for “rumour has it” and we all know what truthful facts are spread by rumour and innuendo. Reminds me of the twitterer-in-chief’s favourite saying, “people are telling me” which we all know means the 3 bobble heads on FoxAndFriends.
Lol what a delusional rant— reflects ignorance of the public health protocol pursuant to state law regarding contaminated ocean waters
I’m curious, now that we know what it does to the beach what is the plan for the next mudflow? Where are we going to dump it knowing it’s so contaminated?
Good point. It’s not just a one time contamination event, but the microbes from the sewage may have reproduced in the mud making the original contamination problem worse. Fortunately we are blessed to have many other beaches to visit. Nature will eventually cleanse this. Remember those we lost in this disaster…
My previous comment censored again by Wolf and her Cabal. Once again violating my First Amendment rights because I speak the truth and that is the last thing Wolf wants to hear!!
1) How long? Ask Wolf – she is keeping it closed to penalize Montecito. It is scary how vindictive she is.
2) my censored note mentioned Perotte’s rip off of City residents in the “free” health insurance she took. She is paying back $10 a week on a $20,000 debt….really?? This is a complete violation of trust of the taxpayer!!
So is the beach in front of the Biltmore closed? How about the private ones? The ones in front of the Yacht Club past Fess Parker to South Beach? Is there a map of which beaches will be closed for the duration due to dumping?
Anyone who goes into the ocean, anywhere along our local shoreline is asking for health problems, some undetectable. The fact that the water is now more contaminated than usual and Goleta beaches are closed is incidental to the fact that our local beach waters are ALWAYS polluted. Pollution levels that are considered “safe” are arbitrary at best; there is no factual science involved! No one should bath in our local beach waters, especially children. They are dangerous to health and will continue to be so as long as we use our ocean for a dump!
Your comment and assumptions are wrong. There is clear science behind assessing the pollution, actually specific biologic contaminants including coliform, fecal specific coliform and enterococcus. The State of California and the Federal EPA has defined the unsafe levels. It is not arbitrary–it is based on the science of risk management. Ocean monitoring is the science of collecting and analyzing the data. The water is NOT “always polluted”. You might say it is never completely without some level of contamination but you need to accept that your body is ALWAYS and continually exposed to “contamination”, in the water, in the air, on your friend’s hand you just shook, on the drinking glass at the restaurant, the weights at the gym, the handle of the gas pump—everywhere. You are at far higher risk of getting sick at a public swimming pool or your friend’s hot tub than at the beach. Except, of course, when the creek water is flushed into the ocean or in this specific case of contaminated soil from Montecito getting into the water.
So, it only took five months for the County Of Santa Barbara to retain professional assistance to STUDY fouled beach mitigation possibilities. Is it possible the sewage treatment outfall at the end of the pier is a contributing source of coliform, fecal coliform and enterococcus pollution? Perhaps dumping some pollution in the county offices will help move things along. 🙂
I know someone who works for the county, and they said that it may be closed for quite some time.
There must be some mystery to the meaning of “treated sewage”. I suppose if it’s still called “sewage” it still carries all preconceptions one has about the stuff. And putting quotes around the treated part highlights the lack of understanding of the process and what it does. All hail to ignorance and the poorly educated.
Speaking of public pools, I remember reading a book about health, written by a doctor, and he said that you could get Hep A from public swimming pools. Thanks, GINGER1, I liked your statement. Never thought about the handle on the gas pump. I’m going to wash my hands RIGHT NOW. Also, anyone know how our air is doing, with all the winds. Do you have ash in the air?
Oh people, quit being so paranoid! What a bunch of whiners!