Clean Ocean Advocate, June 2006

• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Clean Ocean Action (COA) 2006
• Subjects: beach; coastal zone; community awareness; environmental education; pollution; pollution intervention; water; water quality; ecology; ecosystems; environmental impact; environmental law; fish; human health; offshore drilling; Stormwater Management Plan (SWMP); Harp Seal; NJ Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NJPDES); Federal Consistency Determination (FCD); enterococcus; Water Quality Based Effluent Limits (WQBELs); Cape May; Sandy Hook
• Online Access: http://www.cleanoceanaction.org/index.php?id=38; http://hdl.rutgers.edu/1782.1/NJEDL.Newsletter.n4493

The monthly Clean Ocean Advocate newsletter informs citizens about critical ocean pollution issues, important meeting dates, proposed legislation, special events, and other notes of interest. Articles in this issue include: Offshore Energy Issues: Ban on Offshore Drilling Upheld Entire NJ Delegation Votes for the Coast; Federal Agency Seeks Citizen Input on Alternative Energy Environmental Impact Statement; Coastal Water Quality: Point Pleasant Beach Seeks Solution to Stormwater Discharge; Bacteria from Sewage Leak Closes Beaches in Deal in May Beaches Reopen After One Week; Contaminated Sediments: Naval Weapons Station Earle Dredging Dodges a Bullet; Artificial Reefs: Proposed Sandy Hook Reef Elevation Change; Wasting Our Waters Away: Proposal for Monitoring Ocean Discharge from Neptune Sewage Plant; C.O.A.S.T. 2006: C.O.A.S.T. for a "COZ"; COA Staff News: Welcome Aboard, Jessie and Kristel!; and June's "Coastal Creature Feature." Clean Ocean Action (COA) is a broad-based coalition of over 150 business, community, conservation, environmental, fishing, boating, diving, student, surfing, women's, and service groups. These "Ocean Wavemakers" work to clean up and protect the waters of the New York Bight (the area of water from Cape May, New Jersey, to Montauk Point, New York, and out to the edge of the outer continental shelf). The groups came together in 1984 to investigate sources, effects, and solutions of ocean pollution.