Official Posters for Coastal Cleanup Day 2015
Click on the image below to download the official California Coastal Cleanup Day posters. There is an English and Spanish version.
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July 5 fireworks cleanup @ Rockaway
41 people from the fireworks booths showed up at 7:30 AM to help clean up debris from the previous evening’s fireworks at Rockaway Beach. Public Works handled most of the sign ins and sign outs for the fireworks people. 8 volunteers for the PBC also helped. General consensus is that there was less debris than last year. Thanks to […]
Read moreJoin the San Mateo Water Sampling Team
What are you doing this Summer? Help protect San Mateo County beach users by sampling beach, creek and bay waters! County staff will provide training, needed equipment and supplies for the sampling. Samples are collected every Monday morning, and volunteers drop samples at convenient locations in either Half Moon Bay or Pacifica for transport by County staff to the Public Health Laboratory for analysis. Sampling occurs year‐round, and […]
Read morePast Event: 16th Annual Kahuna Kupuna Surf Contest
Enjoy a day at the beach with others in our surfing community, celebrate the intergenerational nature of our sport, and raise some much needed funds for Pacifica’s Environmental Family, Pacific Beach Coalition’s fiscal sponsor! The Kahuna Kupuna is an annual shortboard and longboard surf contest that honors the more experienced (in age) surfers among us! The main focus of the […]
Read moreCigarette Receptacles Installed!
BREAKING NEWS: Cigarette Receptacles installed at Sharp Park and Linda Mar Beach! Each receptacle include a sheet full of cigarette butts facts to educate the public about cigarette butts and their negative effect towards the environment. More containers coming soon to Linda Mar, Rockaway, Winters and Seahorse Saloon. There will be 14 receptacles installed around Pacifica – These were financed […]
Read moreDon’t Let the Balloons Go!
You might think it is beautiful to see a bright colored balloon fly in the light blue sky but this thought will rapidly go away once you see a dead bird on the beach tangled in a balloon ribbon! Surveys have shown the amount of balloons and balloon pieces found on the beach have tripled in the past 10 years. […]
Read moreIf a Whale Decays in the Ocean, What Happens?
By Amidia Frederick Mori Point was abuzz with excitement this spring with the appearance of two whales. The San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department and the city of Pacifica buried the humpback and sperm whale on May 19, completing the burial over the course of two days. The original decision was to let the whales decompose naturally, but surrounding communities […]
Read moreJune Cleanup at Rockaway Beach
Glorious day at Rockaway. Sunshine! Great temperature! Sea Breeze! Thanks to all who participated today (9 hearty volunteers). A total of 5 pounds of trash and 3 pounds of recycles were picked up. Might be an all time low – hopefully because people are 1) littering less and 2) picking up as they go. Cigarette butts, however tend to be […]
Read moreCity Council Meetings, Your Voice will be heard!
Here is a lot of good information if you would like to be involved with helping the City of Pacifica – Info sent by Sue Digre, City Council Member. Pacifica is evaluating and updating the General Plan and Local Coastal Land Use Plan in order to preserve the “CHARACTER of OUR community, PACIFICA” That character is also very environmental. So, it […]
Read moreSnowy Plover & Velella Velella by Paul Donahue
Several of us got together to participate in the census of Snowy Plovers that is conducted twice annually along the Pacific Coast from Washington to Baja. Our wintering Snowy Plovers left back on March 13th, returning to their nesting beaches, but we covered Pacifica’s three beaches just the same, just to be scientific about it. While we didn’t find any […]
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