San Diego Coastkeeper


Did You Know?

  • One quart of oil can contaminate 250,000 gallons of water.
  • One pint of motor oil can make an oil slick the size of an acre.
  • Recycled motor oil production requires only 2.4% of the oil and 50% of the energy of new production.
  • Fifty million gallons of oil disappear from cars each year - burned in exhaust, dripped on the roadway or illegally dumped.
  • In Southern California, stormwater systems carry millions of gallons of polluted runoff to the ocean everyday.
  • More than 1 million birds, more than 100,000 whales, seals and turtles, and countless fish worldwide are killed by plastic debris each year. These deaths occur through entanglement, suffocation, and starvation by ingestion

According to a recent study, San Diego Bay is the nation's second most polluted bay. Much of the pollution comes from storm drains that carry urban runoff from land to "receiving" waters. You can prevent polluted runoff and greatly improve the water quality of San Diego Bay.

Find out how you can improve the water quality of San Diego.

 
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