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Santa Monica Bay
Restoration Commission
320 West 4th Street,
Suite 200
Los Angeles, CA 90013
Phone: (213) 576-6615
Fax: (213) 576-6646
E-mail:
smbrc@waterboards.ca.gov
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The Santa Monica Bay and its watershed are comprised of unique and interrelated habitats. Protecting these habitats is vital to improving water quality and sustaining biological diversity. Bay habitats support fish and wildlife populations that, in turn, provide humans with many economic, recreational, scenic, and educational benefits.
Despite the relative abundance of both aquatic and terrestrial habitats in and around the Bay, many have been significantly degraded and altered since the first humans occupied the watershed. Human activities such as urbanization and industrial development pose serious problems for the Bay's habitats.
Proposition 12 (the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Act) was passed by California's voters in March of 2000. As part of that measure, $25 million was earmarked to implement actions identified in the Santa Monica Bay Restoration Plan. The Project has already funded over $2 million in habitat restoration projects.
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Las Virgenes Creek Restoration Project
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
City of Calabasas
Funding: $282,000
The City of Calabasas will remove over 250 linear feet of a concrete lined portion of Las Virgenes Creek, an important tributary to Malibu Creek and Lagoon. Stream banks will be stabilized using a bio-engineered revetment and replanted with native vegetation.
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Madrona Marsh Restoration Project
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
City of Torrance and the West Basin Municipal Water District
Funding: $780,000
The City of Torrance will work cooperatively with the West Basin Municipal Water District to rehabilitate Madrona Marsh. This project will expand open-water habitat, establish riparian vegetation, remove non-native species, cultivate native scrub plants, and distribute recycled water to the site. It will also serve as a model for other similar urban storm water management and wetland restoration and enhancement projects.
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Topanga Creek Lagoon and Lower Watershed Restoration Plan
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains
Funding: $298,760
The Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains and the Topanga Creek Watershed Committee will develop a Lagoon and Lower Watershed Restoration Plan that will fully integrate the recreational, water quality improvement, and habitat enhancement needs of the area.
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Kelp Restoration Project
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
Santa Monica BayKeeper
Funding: $50,000
Santa Monica BayKeeper plans to restore kelp to its historic acreage throughout the Santa Monica Bay by implementing a kelp restoration project, partially funded ($50,000 of $367,000) by the Bay Project. This project includes designing and constructing a kelp mariculture system in which kelp can be cultivated and transplanted to any of six selected restoration sites along the Malibu coast.
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Lower Topanga Canyon Arundo and Non-native Plant Eradication
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
Mountains Recreation & Conservation Authority
Funding: $180,000
The Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority plans to eradicate Arundo donax (Giant reed) and other non-native plants along a one-mile-long reach of Topanga Creek using a combination of mechanical and chemical techniques.
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Malibu Creek Habitat Enhancement: Removal of Arundo donax
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
Mountains Restoration Trust
Funding: 189,000
The Mountains Restoration Trust plans to eradicate Arundo donax in the Malibu Creek watershed. The project includes mapping, monitoring, and removal of the invasive species.
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Solstice Creek Restoration
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
National Park Service
Funding: $55,000
The National Park Service plans to eradicate False caper (Euphorbia terracina) and other invasive perennial weeds, and restore native plants along five kilometers of Solstice Creek. The focus of the project is riparian understory restoration and enhancement, however non-native ornamental trees will also be removed. This project is linked to a multiagency program to restore Solstice Creek as viable southern steelhead trout habitat.
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Restoration of Natural Resources in Rocky Intertidal Habitats in Santa Monica Bay
PURPOSE
SUMMARY
UCLA Institute of the Environment
Funding: $88,421
This project will identify the causes of degradation in the Bay’s intertidal habitats. Factors such as poor water quality, over-harvesting of intertidal species, and abuse by humans will be studied. Researchers will identify, evaluate, and recommend practical restoration techniques.
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