Video: Taiko on Seventh Street in Montara
Coastside Land Trust Wavecrest management day, Saturday
Coastside Land Trust invites you to join us on Saturday, November 7 from 2–4pm, for a management day at our Wavecrest area properties. Roll up your sleeves, grab your clippers, gloves and boots, and come out for some fun together on the blufftop. We’ll say goodbye to Pampas Grass seed heads, radish and garbage as we steward our lands together before the winter rains set in.
Meet in the parking lot at Smith Field at 2 pm, at the end of Wavecrest Rd, off Highway 1 at Cameron’s Pub.
Jo Chamberlain
Executive Director
office: 650.284.5056
Mobile: 650.346.3775
joc@coastsidelandtrust.org
http://www.coastsidelandtrust.org
MCC Meeting on Wednesday regarding Big Wave EIR
The MCC will hold a special meeting on Wednesday, November 4 to consider and discuss the committee formation and action plan regarding the Big Wave EIR.
Note that Planning Director Lisa Grote will attand and answer any questions about the EIR process.
The meeting is at 7:30 at the Granada Sanitary District Meeting Room, 504 Avenue Alhambra, El Granada
The agenda can be found on the MCC website:
http://mcc.sanmateo.org/home.php
To receive agendas via email, subscribe to the Google Group “MCC-Agendas” here: http://groups.google.com/group/mcc-agendas?hl=en
Political Candidates and Campaign Teams: Clean up after yourselves!
Please make sure your campaign teams remove and dispose of properly all candidate posters, billboards and roadside signs after the election. We don’t need anymore trash on the coastside, thank you and good luck to everyone on election day!
Kevin
Montara Beach Coalition
Photos: Quarry Park potluck
On Oct 25 we had a Harvest Potluck at Quarry Park Community Garden in recognition of our generous donors and everyone who made the garden come alive.
We thanked Christa Bigue in honor of the Frank Stanley Beveridge Foundation. Christa is a board member of her great grandfather’s Foundation and awarded us with a generous donation for the garden.
A wonderful Old Time American Music band called the KJammers (Katherine Gardner,fiddle,Dan Kluger,banjo and Mark Kartman, guitar) volunteered to play for us. Their music was perfect for the warm autumn day, they play beautifully!
We all had a wonderful day, pumpkin carving, kids having fun and of course good food and music!
Thanks so much
Pam Manuel and Friends of Quarry Park
Answers to Blue PCF Flyer About Granada Sanitary District
Paul Perkovic is President of the Montara Water and Sanitary District Board of Directors, but this article reflects his own understanding of Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside work on the Intertie Pipeline System and not the official position of the GSD or MWSD Boards.
“Put Community First”, a Coastside political action committee, has been distributing last-minute campaign material that raises questions about the incumbent Granada Sanitary District (GSD) Board Members - Ric Lohman, Gael Erickson, and Leonard Woren.
Here are the questions, and my (unofficial) answers:
“Why do we still have polluted beaches?”
Since Carollo Engineers performed an extensive series of studies and analyses in 1998 and 1999, identifying problem areas in the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside (SAM) Intertie Pipeline System (IPS), the member agencies, including GSD, have completed improvements eliminating approximately 95% of the previous incidence of IPS sewage overflows.
In those rare instances in which spills still occur, their severity has been greatly reduced by the flow equalization storage capacity at the rehabilitated Walker Tank in Montara and through better sequencing of pump operations.
Much of the continuing pollution, especially in the Pillar Point Harbor area, seems to be coming from runoff into local creeks that drain into the harbor. GSD has invested in studies that show sanitary sewer overflows are not the problem.
GSD challengers’ endorsement claim is not even a half-truth
UPDATE: Judy Taylor says that she has sent an correction to the original recipients of her email, saying in part “I was able to talk with the sewer plant management this morning and confirm that there is no connection and that the closures were a result of other causes.” See this comments on this story for her full statement and a link to Jim Larimer’s original misleading article.
In the waning days of the 2009 election season, the challengers for the GSD board and their supporters have apparently decided that facts are not enough.
Placards have been added to at least four of the GSD challengers’ billboards declaring “Endorsed! HMB Review”. That’s not even a half-truth. Write-in challenger Charlie Hall has been endorsed by the Review, but so have incumbents Gael Erickson and Ric Lohman. They’re on the other sign. The one without the endorsement claim.
The Review singled out challengers Bill Griffis and Lisa McCaffrey as potential puppets of development interests.
As if on cue to confirm the Review’s fears of pro-growth puppetry, Half Moon Bay Realtor Judy Taylor has been circulating a photo of a sign that the county has posted on unsafe beaches, claiming that GSD is responsible for the mess:
The above photo, taken 2 weeks ago, is the reason why the Granada Sanitary Election (Frenchman’s Creek to Clipper Ridge), this coming Tuesday, November 3rd, is so critical. The incumbents have had 12 years to fix this problem and have not. Our sewers are still polluting our beaches. We need GSD Board Members who will address our most pressing needs.
Taylor suggests that GSD’s sewers are responsible for the current bacteria problem on local beaches. This is simply false. The county health department has trying for years to find the source, but it has turned out to be elusive.
Meanwhile, the GSD has a solution to the serious, unrelated problem of wet weather overflows. GSD’s solution is not only elegant, it preserves crucial El Granada green space. Pro-development forces have been trying to delay the project, putting the health and finances of the community at risk for political gain.
If you’re undecided about whom to vote for in Tuesday’s Granada Sanitary District election, this should be a clarifying moment.
GSD Campaign Gets Nasty
A determined group of real estate and developer interests are trying to take over the Granada Sanitary District (GSD). They are stooping to despicable lies and smears against the incumbents. WE NEED YOUR HELP to preserve the Granada Sanitary District.
If you believe, as I do, that the GSD incumbents - Gael Erickson, Ric Lohman, and Leonard Woren - have done an outstanding job keeping GSD rates the lowest on the Coast, maintaining GSD infrastructure, cooperating to make recycled water available, protecting ratepayer investments, and working to prevent spills, it is critically important that you cast your votes for the incumbents.
PLEASE EMAIL THIS ARTICLE TO YOUR FRIENDS who will also support the GSD incumbents, and ask them to do the same.
This is likely to be a very low turnout election, so EVERY VOTE COUNTS!
At issue is a critical piece of infrastructure needed to protect our beaches, plus the very survival of GSD as an independent district serving its community.
The opposition wants to abandon the Sewer Authority Mid-Coastside’s (SAM) Wet Weather Flow Management Project that is well through the planning and engineering process. It will provide underground storage for excess wastewater flows during high flow periods, in a completely passive system not vulnerable to the frequent power outages we have during major storms. The current expected completion date is prior to the rainy season next winter.
Video: The final HMB City Council candidates’ forum
Montara Fog has video of the Coastside Young Professionals’ city council candidates’ forum at Sam’s Chowderhouse on Thursday.
The questions, prepared in advance by the CYP, focused on issues of concern to younger residents of the coast including movie theaters and support for small businesses. Charnock suprised many in the audience by announcing at the start of the forum that there were to be no no questions on the Beachwood matter and suggested that answers should avoid the Beachwood issue as well.
Considering that this is the single most salient issue in the election and the future of the city, it’s startling that the topic was forbidden.
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