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The County Department of Environmental Health issued a General Advisory Wednesday for the coastal waters in San Diego County due to recent rainfall. Swimmers, surfers and other ocean users are reminded to avoid coastal waters for 72 hours, this includes all coastal beaches and all of Mission Bay and San Diego Bay.
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The County wants to give local truck drivers $12 million — to replace or modify their old, pollution-belching diesel engines with modern, advanced technology/alternative fuel trucks.
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You’ve heard that El Niño is coming. And that it could be bringing bucketfuls of rain. So maybe you could use a rain bucket — or a rain barrel — to take advantage of that!
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Another daytime-biting, invasive mosquito thought to have been killed off here more than a decade ago — the Asian tiger mosquito — has been discovered in San Diego County.
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The Department of Environmental Health issued a General Advisory Tuesday for the coastal water of San Diego County due to recent rainfall. Swimmers, surfers and other ocean users are warned that levels of bacteria can rise significantly in oceans and bays, especially near storm drains, creeks, rivers and lagoon outlets that discharge urban runoff.
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San Diego County’s environmental health department will conduct its sixth aerial drop of larvicide of the year Wednesday to help keep mosquito populations down and West Nile virus at bay.
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The County’s doing its part to help keep the deep blue green by replacing older diesel engines with newer, cleaner models thanks to a grant program.