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Dec 02
2008
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Steelhead BeachPosted by Bruce Robinson in water , tourism , Santa Rosa , Russian River , resources , recreation , policy , parks , nonprofit orgs , news , fish , environment , construction , conservation , community , budget , activism |
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The possibility of a new wastewater discharge pipeline to the county's popular Steelhead Beach in Forestville (above) has apparently been killed by cost considerations.
The pipeline to the proposed Steelhead Beach discharge site would have run through the quiet corridor of Osprey trail (below). Photos courtesy West County Gazette.

Brenda Adelman of the Russian River Watershed Protection Committee contends that Santa Rosa could and should reduce the amount of water flowing into the treatment plant by moving more aggressively to repair leaking sewer pipes that allow rainwater to get in.
Richard Heinberg is the author of Peak Everything and The Party's Over, among other books on oil and energy policy issues.
Heinberg says that pump prices and the per-barrel cost of crude were not the only things that peaked last summer.
Reining in oil speculators would be a constructive response to the events of the past year, Heinberg says, but that's only a first step.


This magnified image shows the P. ramorum spores on the underside of a California bay laurel leaf.
