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Kelp Beds at Trinidad Head
This CCA is also designated as a state Area of Special Biological Significance (ASBS). Potential sources of pollutants of concern in this CCA include logging roads, septic systems, stormwater discharges, and boating activities (e.g., fish waste, boat cleaning, and moorings).
In 2006, the City of Trinidad and partners will receive a Prop 50 Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Planning grant for $500,000 to:
- Conduct a watershed assessment to identify the primary sediment sources in the area’s watersheds;
- Asses the degree of contamination to surface and groundwater from septic systems;
- Conduct a stormwater assessment and develop a stormwater management plan;
- Establish a public education/outreach program;
- Develop a Watershed Action Plan to identify management measures and specific projects to reduce nonpoint source (NPS) pollutants; and
- Incorporate this watershed plan as part of the Trinidad General Plan, thus updating the General Plan as a watershed-planning document.
The City of Trinidad’s partners in this project are Streamline Planning Consultants (Trinidad's city planners), Winzler & Kelly Consulting Engineers (Trinidad’s city engineers), Redwood Community Action Agency (a natural resources nonprofit organization), and Westhaven Community Services District. Several other local stakeholder groups are participants in the project, including Green Diamond Resource Company (the major landowner), the Trinidad Rancheria, the Yurok Tribe, Humboldt State University, the Humboldt Bay Stewards (a community resources group), and a Humboldt County Supervisor.
State agency participants in the Pilot CCA include the Coastal Commission, Coastal Conservancy, Dept. of Fish & Game, State Parks, North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, State Water Resources Control Board NPS Program, and State Water Resources Control Board Ocean Unit. State agency partners will provide technical assistance for the project, and help guide development of the CCA’s NPS Watershed Assessment and Action Plan.
The local stakeholders and the state agency team held the first joint Pilot CCA meeting on Nov. 15, 2005, to decide upon a framework for collaboration. About 25 participants attended this all-day meeting at Trinidad City Hall. The Pilot CCA team will meet quarterly, with subcommittees convening to address specific topics. For more information, please contact Vanessa Metz, California Coastal Commission, at vmetz@coastal.ca.gov, or Trever Parker, City of Trinidad, at trever@streamlineplanning.net.
Please visit the City of Trinidad’s website (http://www.trinidad.ca.gov/) for additional information on Trinidad’s Integrated Coastal Watershed Management Planning grant and other water quality projects.
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