PRESS RELEASES

San Diego Coastkeeper released its 2025 San Diego Bay Water Quality Monitoring Report, marking the first full year of data collection across the Bay.

San Diego Coastkeeper has released its 2025 Annual Report, reflecting a year of significant achievements in environmental advocacy, legal enforcement, and community-driven science.

Today, San Diego Coastkeeper with California Coastkeeper Alliance filed a petition with the San Diego Regional Water Quality Control Board aimed at reducing stormwater-driven pollution from privately-owned commercial, industrial, and institutional sites that generate runoff into the Lower San Diego River.

San Diego Coastkeeper released its 2025 Mission Bay Water Quality Monitoring Report, documenting a second year of monthly data across ten Bay locations. The report finds chronic pollution at Tecolote and Rose Creek inflows and highlights a growing network of more than 260 trained community volunteers.

San Diego Coastkeeper and CERF have reached a settlement with SeaWorld San Diego resolving a Clean Water Act lawsuit over fireworks-related pollution in Mission Bay, coinciding with SeaWorld’s transition to drone light shows beginning May 22.

San Diego Coastkeeper, Surfrider Foundation San Diego County, and Ocean Connectors release their 2025 Marine Debris Report, revealing that 8,179 volunteers removed nearly 20,000 pounds of trash from San Diego’s beaches and waterways — with plastic fragments topping the list for the third year running.

On May 4, 2026, LAFCO voted 5-3 to shelve its own review of San Diego’s regional water agencies for four years. San Diego Coastkeeper and a coalition of organizations are calling on the Commission to reverse course.