Local News in Brief : Move to Clean Up Bay
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Santa Monica Bay has been granted special status under the National Estuary Program, a designation that could lead to cleaning up the bay’s waters and beaches, officials announced.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency included the bay in the program on the recommendations of Gov. George Deukmejian and Rep. Mel Levine (D-Los Angeles). As a result, about $2 million will become available to form a committee of local officials and environmental groups to discuss the bay’s problems.
In recent years, concern has mounted about the effects on fish and other marine life of DDT deposits, storm drain runoff and sewage discharged into the bay from Los Angeles city and county treatment plants.
San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, which empties into the bay, are the only other California waters included in the National Estuary Program, state officials said.
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