Malibu Creek

along a stretch of media re integrate feels battered plastic bags and other tracks going from the lower branches nearly every tree and brown water flows over rocks covered by the county wearing fishing vest and figurative from our favorite buffets wade in the water they're also looking for patches of whitewater called ripples and the bugs that live in them abramson places a small lead in the ripple and walks down to see those little dots on the map was actually build enough supplies and levi's are common in polluted things there's a big report we're there would be a larger variety of insight like this we would expect to see the sense of a

much higher levels of pollution from the urban runoff so heal the bay is able to use as an indicator of water quality video create as part of the malibu three watershed watershed is threatened by a number of problems including too much water flowing into it from homes and a wastewater treatment plant excess dust from development and pesticides media and malibu greeks are also choked with algae the excessive growth of the algae is at least in part caused by high levels of nitrogen and phosphorous come from things like garden fertilizers and the treatment plant heal the bay scientists shelly loos says that's a problem is that a lot of the oxygen in the water so it's not that the aquatic life it's an overwrought and the look one of the fish they need clean water is the steelhead

trout it's endangered in southern california and lower malibu creek is one of the few places it's still lives heal the bay was to restore and protect the malibu creek watersheds so it's putting the most pristine tributaries to set a baseline one of them is old creek which runs through a nature preserve these divorce virginia's role in the water is so clear you can see the bottom of the creek and in quarantine brown california new lighting along the gravel there's almost no algae insight art abramson called in another net filled with many different kinds of baba amr a sign of good water quality in some sense of whether this is a little tiny black guy with flames in a long running ads here in the square ish minutes with your dragon women merely co workers who build abramson says for the creek is so mean they

often can't detect any nitrogen or other pollutants so young the neighbor leaves a fully restored now lou reed i have only a tiny amount of nitrogen the us epa recently set a cap on the amount of nitrogen allowed in the water said that shelly loos says he'll delay is disappointed with the regulations are far far higher than a healthy in some areas the epa says nitrogen isn't the only reason for too much algae so it's not clear that having it to the level feel that they want to make a big difference and it might be prohibitively expensive even in possible deal that they hope to persuade the epa differently when it finishes its research on malibu week this fall in the santa monica mountains to set sail at nine point three kpcc