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This automotive piece of art is parked on a side street running next to the creek (you can see the creek banks in the background). This is a very diverse community, with numerous cultures and languages.
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I often work with Graduate students and interns, and I like to take them to Chollas Creek when I do monitoring for diazinon, an organophosphate pesticide that was removed from the shelves a few years back and which we have seen steadily declining in the watershed. Diazinon was applied to lawns and is fatal to birds. Getting it off the shelves was the first step, and getting people to stop using it (ind other pesticides) was the next step. Now we are monitoring its concentration, and seeing a decline. There is a TMDL in this watershed for diazinon.
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A few of the other nonprofits working in the creek are trying to develop a creek train that runs from this downstream section all the way to the headwaters of the watershed. Piece by piece they have been restoring the creek, removing trash and invasive plants. This site has no water if their is no rain, due to improved infiltration as a result of their efforts.
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Shopping carts and mattresses litter the river at this site. There is a man who lives here, just downstream of the bridge, who likes to wave his arms at legs at me when I come to collect samples.
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Chollas Creek Swirls with phosphates and furniture in early 2007.
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