Helping Our Peninsula's Environment

 

Carmel River Pesticide & Fertilizer Pollution

 

Four golf courses sit directly alongside our Carmel River where we on the Monterey Peninsula get over two-thirds of its drinking water (Rancho Canada 1 & 2, Quail Lodge, Carmel Valley Ranch).

There are two other golf courses in the Carmel River watershed - Rancho San Carlos and the new one at Canada Woods.

  • Each of those six golf courses uses thousands of pounds of pesticides each year. The pesticides include Daconil (Chlorothalonil), Fenamiphos (Nemacur), Dichlobenil (Norosad), Glyphosate (Roundup), Pendamethyline, and PCNB.
  • Each of those six golf courses uses thousands of pounds of fertilizers each year.

Pesticides in our drinking water can harm each of personally. They can directly kill the imperiled species who live in the river -the Endangered Species act listed Southern Steelhead and Mark Twain's Celebrated California Red-legged Frog.

Monterey County Environmental Health does not track the use of either the pesticides or the fertilizers used or their impacts to our drinking water supply - the Carmel River.

HOPE intends to do independent testing of the Carmel River for the pesticides already known to be used by the golf courses along its banks.

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