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Santa Monica Bay
Restoration Commission
320 West 4th Street,
Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 576-6615
Fax: (213) 576-6646
E-mail:
smbrc@waterboards.ca.gov
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AS WE ENTER THE 21st CENTURY, a multitude of challenges continues to face Santa Monica Bay and its watershed. These challenges include how best to:
- Balance the needs of a growing population with resource protection and restoration
- Restore the watershed's many degraded habitats and living resources (e.g., wetland, lagoon, terrestrial, riparian, intertidal, and marine)
- Preserve open space, ensure habitat linkages, and implement environmentally friendly land use policies.
- Minimize and/or eliminate invasive species while improving the state of the watershed's threatened and endangered species
- Reduce contaminated urban runoff and improve water quality both throughout the watershed and in the Bay itself
- Coordinate and implement a comprehensive monitoring program to more effectively assess the condition of the Bay.
- Protect public health from risks associated with eating Bay seafood and swimming in the Bay.
- Educate Los Angeles' diverse audiences about the importance of pollution prevention and environmental protection/restoration.
How best to address these challenges is detailed more specifically in Problems & Solutions. Continued vigilance and action are crucial if we are to fully implement the Bay Restoration Plan and achieve its goals of a clean and healthy Santa Monica Bay.
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