Coastkeeper launches interactive Web site
Mike Lee
San Diego Union-Tribune
07/24/2009
San Diego Coastkeeper has launched an interactive Web site to help the region track and control water pollution.
The site — sdwatersheds.org — includes maps of watersheds, information on water quality, water-related analyses, regulatory details and a blog.
Users can contribute to the "wiki," which is designed to serve as a community forum and a repository for data on bacteria levels at beaches, examples of good land-use practices and reports of water-quality violations.
The Web site enables Coastkeeper to showcase "informative and appealing maps which engage communities in understanding and protecting water quality, both in our backyards and at our spectacular beaches," said Karen Franz...
