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Presenter urges residents to prevent creek pollution: "Scoop the poop, bag it, and put it in your garbage"
Summary
A presenter opened the meeting with a public-service announcement urging residents to prevent creek pollution by picking up pet waste, avoiding over-irrigation, and removing yard debris; the advice was given as practical steps to keep fertilizer, herbicides and compost out of local creeks.
A presenter told attendees that routine yard and pet care can help prevent pollution entering local creeks. The speaker advised residents to "scoop the poop, bag it, and put it in your garbage," to check the weather before watering lawns, and to avoid over-irrigation that sends nutrient-rich runoff into waterways.
The speaker warned that runoff from fertilizer, herbicides, landscape materials, compost piles and leaf debris "pollute our creeks," and urged people to pick up litter before wind or rain can carry it into storm drains. No public discussion followed this announcement; the meeting proceeded to procedural business.
