Over the next three years, UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography will develop a forecast tool that will predict the presence of pathogens in San Diego coastal and tidal waters
In front of Imperial Beach’s deserted shoreline dotted with red “warning” signs, members of San Diego’s legislative delegation announced Friday that $3 million from the state budget will fund a new model aimed at more accurately predicting sewage contamination days in advance at South County beaches.
“The vision is that a local family or tourists can look at an app and see just like you can see with a weather model or with weather predictions, whether it’s a good idea to take your kids to the beach on the weekend,” said Falk Feddersen, a Scripps physical oceanographer.The funds to develop the forecast tool were brokered by District 18 Sen. Steve Padilla. He was joined Friday by several other San Diego officials, including Assembly members David Alvarez, Chris Ward and Laurie Davies, Sen.
Scripps’ tool will be based on two key aspects that will result in having five-day forecasts: sampling water at beach and coastal sites to identify harmful pathogens and conducting lab experiments to assess how long bacteria survives in the ocean, said Andrew Barton, another oceanographer at the institution.Imperial Beach and Coronado saw last year a record number of beach closures, even through tourist season.
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