Clean water is one of our basic necessities, and it is all the more precious in this time of sustained drought. The Environmental Defense Center fights to ensure that runoff from rains is not carrying industrial chemicals and pollutants into our creeks and onto our coast, and to ensure that we all enjoy healthy communities and a safe environment.
Our beaches and creeks are precious community resources and EDC serves as a watchdog, working with landowners and state and local agencies to make sure our waters are clean and flow freely. In 2022 alone, EDC had 164 volunteers join us for a record amount of trash and recycling collected from Goleta Creeks: 10,877 pounds!
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Adequate development setbacks from creeks are vital to the long-term sustainability of the City of Goleta’s creeks. EDC, on behalf of ourselves and our client Santa Barbara Urban Creeks Council, is committed to ensuring protection for our creeks and is advocating for the City to develop a robust creek protection ordinance that identifies the process for determining when a creek setback may be reduced.
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