Thu | Day 16 – Thanksgiving Cleanups, KTS Volunteer Appreciation Night, 12/5

See next article below for the Thanksgiving Day’s  CleanUp at Ocean Beach, and Friday’s rally at Bolinas, or go here.
 

Wed | Day 15 – Join Us for Thanksgiving CleanUp, Ocean Beach + Bolinas

Per KTS, Matter of Trust, and the SF Dept of Emergency Management:
Volunteer Beach Clean-up Thanksgiving Day
National Park Service Officials anticipate that the high tide on the morning of November 22nd, Thanksgiving Day, may deposit small tar balls and minor amounts of oil at Ocean Beach.
Therefore, the City and County of San Francisco, together with the Environmental Protection [...]

Tue | Day 14 – Future Clean-Ups & Reminder Tips

Per KTS this morning:
“With the Volunteers trained and oil still washing up on our beaches, we know people are frustrated with the official volunteer efforts coming to an end, prematurely.  Stay tuned for additional clean-ups to be organized, timed with the tides.  Please continue to help us get feedback on the state of the beaches, [...]

Mon | Day 13 – Kill the Spill in the Media

Here are a few articles covering the surf community’s grassroots efforts:
1.  LA Times 11.18.07  “Spill Guerillas Hit the Beach”
2.  Surfline 11.13.07:  “KILL THE SPILL San Francisco surfers take cleaning Ocean Beach into their own hand”
- article by Marcus Sanders, with quotes from Proof Lab and Surfrider SF:
3.  Surfer Magazine: “SEEPING THROUGH SAN FRAN: Oil Spill Ravages OB, [...]

Mon | Day 13 – Fistful of OB Oil from Sunday

From OB resident, Ben Garcia: “As per sunday at 10 am there was plenty of small oil blobs seen on ocean beach.  I walked a small area between fulton and kirkham and in an hour or less had a fistful of oil.”  See photo above.

Mon | Day 13 – new update for Ocean Beach

More on OB, per Darin & Kathleen of Kill the Spill:
” I just checked OB [this morning, Monday] and there are signs saying the you should use the beach at your own risk.  Between Noriega and Taraval there were THREE quarter sized oil spots!  The surf looks good, overhead and glassy on the outside.” — Kathleen, [...]

Mon | Day 13 Update – Pacifica, Berkeley, Ocean Beach, Marin

Thank you all for your reports.  Keep them coming in, so we can let the official agencies know where to deploy more resources. 
PACIFICA:
Per Greg Cochran of Pedro Point Surf Club on Sunday:
 ”We have had small amounts of oil washing ashore on all of our beaches.  The Pro Cleanup crew cleaned Linda Mar this AM [Sunday]. [...]

Sun | Day 12 Update

Per KTS, 403 more folks were trained on Saturday!  That brings it to well over 1400 officially trained in San Francisco.   
Ocean Beach opened up yesterday (although posted signs along the beach still say it’s closed)…but we are getting reports from that Ocean Beach may not be clean enough.  It also sounds like there’s still plenty [...]

Thu.11.15 Pacifica Volunteers’ Snafu Corrected

(6pm) — A Pacifica volunteer wrote in earlier that there was an ID card snafu.  Due to clerical issue,  the Pacifica officials at the training failed to issue the trainees with the necessary ID cards to prove certification had been completed.  She reported she couldn’t participate in the OB clean-up today and was turned away, despite some clearance attempts [...]

Thu.11.15 – Recent Beach Photos. More photos wanted.

MAVERICKS 11.15.07
It’s still unclear how much oil, if any, as made it down to Mavericks.  But, one dead bird was found, and another dead one was found in the water.  We’ve heard conflicting reports…
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AQUATIC PARK 11.15.07

The swim clubs in Aquatic Park are very concerned about their swimming area.  Per what some members witnessed this morning, [...]