Research Project Ideas

1. Has beach quality in San Diego getting better or worse

From the articles on healthebay.org there seems like the overall amount of beaches in San Diego are pretty good most of the year but when it rains urban runoff from the streets forces a lot of beacehs to close because of bacteria that is swept into the ocean because of the rain. The Union Tribune page talks about how pollution is getting worse and after the rain season last year with more rain than usual it forced many beaches to close because of how the land is kept up which is something that needs to be fixed if we are to help the oceans get less poluted.

http://www.healthebay.org/assets/pdfdocs/brc/summer/2008/report_print.pdf

http://www.healthebay.org/brc/annual/2007/counties/sd/analysis.asp

http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20050526/news_7m26beach.html

2. Whats the cleanest beach in San Diego? Whats the dirtiest?

"When there's rain, beaches at the mouths of lagoons, rivers and creeks tend to exceed state standards for fecal coliform bacteria." Overall from reports i have read San Diego beaches are much better than beaches in L.A. Country and northern California. Only time they are really bad is when it rains and the quote above gives the reasan for that. So maybe my question should be more about the difference between beacehs here in San Diego and beaches in the rest of California but that will be hard to test water out of San Diego. This may be something i can look up on the internet on many different sources that are reliable and maybe shed a whole different light on beaches in San Diego.

http://kickapps.oncape.com/kickapps/_Coast-Guard-Beach-ranked-No-5-on-Top-Ten-list/blog/65126/29370.html

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20080521-0956-bn21beaches.html

http://obrag.org/?p=827