San Clemente’s Poche Beach To Receive $3 Million Cleanup
According to the San Clemente Times, Poche Beach, located in the area of North San Clemente next to Dana Point, has had poor quality ratings for years due to run-off from 4,400 square acres. Advisories were posted on 210 of the 365 days in 2007. Poche ranked number 7 on Heal the Bay’s 2009 list of 10 “Beach Bummers.”
To help cure the problem, a $3 million treatment system will be installed to remove particles from urban runoff and then unltraviolet light will zap the water to kill the bacteria. The City of San Clemente hopes to see a big improvement in the water quality by this time next year.
Other San Clemente beaches, such as Pico, have had successful results. The dry-weather runoff between Avenida Pico and El Camino Real is diverted to a nearby treatment facility and has resulted in the beach receiving an A in dry weather conditions. San Clemente also has a diversion system for Linda Lane and Riviera Beach.
While these beaches have solid rating for dry weather conditions, the diversion systems and water treatment facilities are not capable of handling wet weather conditions, and therefore, all the run-off during rains still go straight into the ocean. Hopefully this will be an issue addressed in the near future.
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