Coastkeeper hires water-pollution expert
Mike Lee
San Diego Union-Tribune
03/08/2010
SAN DIEGO — One of the region’s largest environmental groups announced Friday that it had hired veteran water pollution expert Clay Clifton to expand its watershed monitoring efforts.
San Diego Coastkeeper conducts monthly sampling in nine out of 11 watersheds in the county and assesses some water bodies that no other organization tracks. A team of trained citizen volunteers collects the data according to state-approved quality control standards.
Clifton brings a new level of expertise to the initiative. He has worked on water pollution issues for more than a decade, most recently directing the Ocean Recreational Water Program for San Diego County’s Department of Environmental Health.
