Category: Health

The County still has an advisory up for Dog Beach in OB. They advise that bacteria levels exceed health standards and that people and dogs should avoid water contact in the advisory area. It’s been on since June 6. The advisory covers the San Diego River outlet to 300 yards south.

There’s also an advisory for a part of Mission Bay —  for the North Cove of Vacation Isle and 150’ each side of the southern drain. This has been on since May 30, 2024.

By Sarah Mosko / Times of San Diego / May 3, 2024

Many residents of Orange and San Diego counties were relieved when the nuclear power plant at San Onofre was permanently shut down in 2013. This naïve thinking, that the plant posed risks to people and property only while the reactors were operational,

By Joey Safchik /7SanDiego /April 29, 2024

A city of San Diego cannabis social equity program has been in the works for years.

The program’s goal is to open doors for people and family members impacted by the criminalization of cannabis so that they can enter the now-legal industry. The city’s own study found people of color were disproportionately affected.

Megain McCall has a felony cannabis conviction for possession of a bag of cannabis-infused candy. McCall has spent half a decade advocating for the social equity program.

Roll up for Cannabis Equity

By Terrie Best

The Department of Justice has announced they plan to move “marijuana” (they call it that because they are silly and won’t get onboard) from class I to III on the controlled substances schedule.

74% of Americans live in a state with a cannabis program of some kind. This is the first change to federal cannabis policy in decades and it is to be celebrated for sure. Still, the goal is and must remain full legalization and removal from the controlled substances schedule altogether. Which could mean that medical cannabis will take a different track then adult use.

An E. coli outbreak has been linked to organic walnuts sold at stores in San Diego County.

Gibson Farms, a company based in Hollister, California, voluntarily recalled its Organic Light Halves and Pieces shelled walnuts after discovering the nuts could be contaminated with an E. coli strain that “causes a diarrhea illness often with bloody stools.” So far, 12 people have been sickened and seven have been hospitalized,

Advisories from County Beach & Bay Water Quality Program

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Advisory: Ocean Beach – Dog Beach
Station: San Diego River outlet to 300′ South (FM-010)
Status Since: February 14, 2024
Bacteria levels exceed health standards. Avoid water contact in the advisory area. (See below)

By Shelby Huffaker, MPH / San Diego Americans for Safe Access / March 5, 2024

Note: This page is a living document, though not all updates will be reflected immediately. Please refer to the bills’ pages for the most up-to-date information at the original.

AB 1775: Cannabis: retail preparation, sale, and consumption of noncannabis food and beverage products.*

This bill would authorize a local jurisdiction to allow for the preparation or sale of non-cannabis food or beverage products at licensed consumption lounges; …

County officials placed the Point Loma shoreline under a water contact closure after approximately 5,875 gallons of gallons of sewage spilled from the Point Loma Wastewater Treatment Plant on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The spill leaked into the ocean, according to the county’s Beach and Bay Water Quality Program.

The closure to the area surrounding the Point Loma plant was implemented on Tuesday after the spill.

Popular coastal areas like the Point Loma tide pools and the Point Loma Ecological Reserve are impacted by the closure.

No details about what caused the spill or how long the water contact closure may be in place were immediately available.

By Judi Curry

I purchased my home in the Sunset Cliffs area in 1967, just as Sea World was getting started. At that time there were no fireworks every night.

Over the many years I have resided here, the fireworks have become nightly, scaring the dogs that live here; having a Viet-Nam discharged military man leave my house in a hurry because the sound of the fireworks brought back all of the experiences he had while fighting in the war; and watching other animals panic at the sound of the explosives.

by Debbie L. Sklar / Times of San Diego / Jan. 17, 2024

Infection preventative measures, including high ventilation standards and universal masking, prevented many SARS-CoV-2 transmissions during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, a UC San Diego-led study published Tuesday revealed.

What the data revealed, the authors at UCSD School of Medicine wrote, was that amongst patients who tested positive for the virus, the use of personal protective equipment shielded and virtually eliminated health care associated transmission.

From Environment News Service / Jan. 7, 2024

Tons of munitions, DDT and petrochemicals were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California universities are discovering. This dumping is known to have happened from the 1940s until 1972, when the Marine Protection, Research and Sanctuaries Act, also called the Ocean Dumping Act, came into force, and the chemicals are still there.

County health officials have issued an advisory for Dog Beach in Ocean Beach as bacterial levels exceed health standards and which advises people — and dogs — to avoid water contact in that area. The advisory is from the San Diego River outlet to 300 feet south.

The advisory was issued Saturday, January 6, 2024 and was part of an updated water contact closure and advisory list starting Sunday for county beaches..

Water contact closures have been issued for the following locations due to bacteria levels exceeding health standards: