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I gather San Diego discharged sewage into the sea forever. When they finally got to cleaning it up, maybe to appease surfers, they were forbidden because an eco
by ncmncm 4y ago
I gather San Diego discharged sewage into the sea forever. When they finally got to cleaning it up, maybe to appease surfers, they were forbidden because an ecosystem had grown up dependent on it the way it was.
- labrador 4y agoSanta Cruz didn't clean it up because of surfers, who didn't care because it wasn't very noticeable, although you knew you were taking a chance of getting mildly sick. It's really difficult to resist going out when the waves are good. It was because the fecal bacteria count was over the new environmental standards that came to be in the last two decades of the 1900's. Many people don't realize there's an acceptable amount of mouse dung and insect carcasses in the food they buy, so it may sound gross to surf in gray water, but it really wasn't. It may be a bigger problem in San Diego because the water is much warmer than the cold currents the come down the coast from Alaska to Santa Cruz (along with some good waves)