'Rock of Ages, standing sentry, denying evil spirits entry Birds have soared over your sacred heights for countless days and untold nights When foolish man has come and gone, your scarlet cliffs will go on and on With great respect I humbly ask, you grant me power for my task' Picture was originally DSCN2023 (3).JPG

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The Ocean Outfall Group ("OOG") was founded after the unlikely victory saving the "Little Shell" wetland in Huntington Beach, near the corner of Beach Blvd. and PCH. The organization went on to defeat the Orange County Sewage Waiver, and contributed to the demise of the Goleta and Morro Bay sewage waivers.

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RETURNING THE OCEAN TO HEALTH AND ABUNDANCE What is a 301(h) Waiver? It's a 'free pass' around the FEDERAL CLEAN WATER ACT that allows San Diego to dump filthy sewage into the sea off Point Loma containing extra-high levels of human fecal debris in the discharge! The last Ocean sewage waiver in California is the San Diego sewage waiver. But there are many ocean outfalls from outdated single-pass "once-through cooling" power plants which threaten the health of the Ocean. These plants are authorized to kill all the sea creatures in up to one billion gallons of sea water per day for each outfall. Larger sea life is caught in screens, scraped off and hauled to the dump. Whatever passes through the screens is caught in the pump, crushed and killed. Then it's carried to the heat exchanger, where it's boiled. The resulting dead mass is expelled to the Ocean, creating a thermal dead-zone packed with dead and dying organic matter. All of these plants are obsolete, and should be replaced by modern high-efficiency combined cycle power plants, which reuse the cooling water and don't waste as much heat.

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