October 10, 2009

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we do not receive any water quality report from Jennifer Ketterman's office during the winter months.Charlie Plybon ( Surfrider) has made arrangements with Tim Roth at Astoria High School for having his team of science students do testing during that time. We have been trained, along with several locals from Cannon Beach, on taking samples at the Ecola Outfall, and put a 'relay' team into place to get those samples to the lab at Astoria High School.the sample on 12/7 showed a count of 2350, which is VERY high. There has not been any storm event ( = water runoff), so the city needs to keep looking for that source of contamination.Mark See from Public Works is working with Charlie. We have also included the city manager and city council on the list to be notified of results. Hopefully, this can be solved before tourist season starts in 2010. Many children play in that area, and those high ecoli counts are of great concern to us.Stay tuned.