Check out the 2023 Newsletter!

• HTO Takes on Beached Boats

• Diving into Homeless Issue & Cleanup of Abandoned Homeless Camps

• Summerland Oil Update

• Styrofoam Recycling Program

• Sea Level Rise - Are we moving fast enough?

• Keeping Trash out of the Ocean

• HTO Dog Bag Program, Miscellaneous Projects, Planes for Balloons, Imaginary Events, and More!

• Emissions Stopped, And We Could Suddenly See Blue Sky, All Over the World

• COVID-19 in Wastewater - The Canary in the Coal Mine

• Art Imitating Life - Climate Change

• Summerland Oil Update

• Fighting for Clean Groundwater - Both Shallow and Deep

• Social Injustice of Plastics, Beach Cleanups, Styrofoam Recycling, and More!

• Summerland Legacy Wells

• The Planck Study

• Styrofoam Recycling

• Sea Level Rise Analysis

• Groundwater Cleanup

• Recycled Water

• Homeless Camps, Freeing the Whales, and More

• Santa Barbara Thomas Fire and Mud Slides

• Becker Well Capping

• Garden Street/101

• Coastal Cleanups

• Nora McNeely Hurley’s Personal Campaign

• Postcard Campaign

• HTO’s 20 Year Anniversary

• Recycled Water

• Groundwater Characterization Project

• Wase(d) Water Inventory Completion

• Garden Street/101

• Septic System Pollution

• Sea Level Rise Research

• Summerland Oil, Beach Cleanups, and More

• Achieving Sustainable Water in Santa Barbara County

• Recycling Waste(d) Water

• Potable Reuse

• LAMP is Law

• Groundwater Basin Assessment

• Summerland Oil Mess

• Septic-to-Sewer Project

• Heal the Ocean Feted for Rincon Project

• Campaign for Strong Local Septic System Regulations

• Groundwater Recharge

• Reclaiming Waste(d) Water

• Water Bond Funding Opportunities

• Climate Action Planning

• Beach Bacteria Objectives, Statewide Desalination, Potable Reuse Panel and More

• Drought… An Opportunity in Disguise?

• Breaking Ground for the Rincon Project

• Sea Level Rise Preparation

• Ribbon Cutting for GSD

• Recycled Water Plan

• Peggy Oki - Creating Art for HTO

• HTO Benefit, Dog Bags, and More

• The Rincon Project 1998 - 2013

• Surfers are the Canaries

• Sewers Cause Growth

• CEQA Invites Hang-ups

• 15 Years of Political Surf

• Caltrans and the Road to Mammoth

• EIR Lawsuit, Permitting, and More

• The Value of Wastewater Management

• Participation in Recycled Water Group

• Septic System Removal Timeline & AB 885

• Rincon Sewer Construction

• Storm Over Storm Water…

• Groundwater Project

• Sea Level Rise, Goleta Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade, Sewer Lateral Issue, and More

• Getting the Money for Clean Water

• HTO Blasts CEC Monitoring Plan

• Dusting Off West End Master Plan

• Groundwater… What is in?

• Septic Systems AB 885

• More Septics Leave the Beach

• Dog Bags, Tackling CECs, Septics, and More

• Construction Starting for GSD Upgrade

• Wastewater Recycling

• HTO Weighs in on ASBS Issue

• AB 885 and Other Areas of Septic Work

• HTO Charts Toxic Groundwater

• Where’s the Dump

• HTO Junior Council Beach Cleanups

• Septic to Sewer Project

• Goleta Sanitary District

• Wastewater Discharge Report and Inventory

• HTO’s 4-Point Wastewater Strategy

• HTO Junior Council, Flags on State Street, etc.

• Wasting Wastewater

• Montecito Outfall Study

• Rincon Sewer Project Funded

• Rincon 10 Years Later

• On Schedule: Goleta Sanitary Upgrade

• HTO Storm Troopers, Septic Problems Tackled, etc.

• HTO Receives $330,000 State Grant to Study Wastewater Outfall

• Rincon Homeowners Vote Yes for Sewer

• Sewer Lateral Program a Success

• Goleta Sanitary Goes Green

• USGS Study Completed

• Hooray for the Flag, Septic Work, F.U.N.D. Kids Baks Sale, etc.

• Groundwater to the Ocean

• Charge Against Septic Pollution

• Goleta Sanitary Continues Upgrade

• More Storm Over Storm Water

• Studying Shallow-Water Sewer Outfalls

• The Groundwater Connection

• Rincon Moves Forward

• Heal the Ocean & The Media

• Sewer Lateral Ordinance

• HTO Sewage Work Helps Chile Surf Resort

• Rincon Surfers Are the Best

• Jack Johnson and Heal the Ocean, Charge Against Septic Pollution, and More

• HTO Progresses on Clean-Water Campaign

• USGS to Test Groundwater

• Coast Law Group Takes on HTO Cases

• Waving Goodby to Waivers

• HTO’s Septic Inventory for the State of California

• Rincon Clean Water Classic, Our Innovative Fundraisers, and More

• State Board Denies Goleta Sanitary District Appeal

• RIncon Vote Nears..

• Watching Tajiguas Landfill

• Surfers Help Again, Thank You Fundraisers, and More

• EIR Study Begins to Remove Septic Systems

• Storm Water Pollution

• Waste Matters

• Goleta Water

• Tajiguas

• With Deep Appreciation

• The Woefulness of Waivers

• Rincon Project Gets Boost

• Tajiguas Landfill Violates Five-Foot Rule

• Septic-to-Sewer and Sewer Infrastructure

• Tertiary Sewage Survey Results

• Tertiary Treatment: Time for Self Determination

• Local Heroes Presented with Healer Awards

• Tajiguas Expansion: A Soggy Mess?

• Fund Helps Public Outreach

• HTO Groundwater Study Moves Ahead

• The Dilemma of Human Waste

• Viruses and the Groundwater Issue

• Reclamation and Tertiary Upgrade

• Dead or Alive? The Viability Issue

• Septic-to-Sewer Conversions

• Heal the Ocean Launches Illness Survey