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Regional Waterboard Gets Frisky
Toxo-plasmosis Source Found- Central Coast Regional Waterboard!
California's Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board considered a County storm-water runoff plan today that enviros found a bit short on specifics, Anjali Jaiswal of the Natural Resource Defense Council leading the charge.

Said I, "We are being offered a non-point solution for non-point-source pollution".

UC Davis Researcher Haydee DaBritz's Toxoplasma Gondii study and Southern Sea Otter mortality around Morro Bay was discussed, and it appears the 31 metric TONS of cat shit washed into the watershed each year are the culprit. During lunchbreak I saw cat food cans just outside the Regional Waterboards back door, in spite of the fact that cat feces carries the 'oosysts' (tiny eggs) of this disease, so deadly to otters.

Joey Racano, Director
Ocean Outfall Group

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