Montrose Settlements Restoration Program

DDTs and PCBs dumped in the ocean decades ago at White Point, near Los Angeles continue to contaminate natural resources in the Southern California Bight. The Montrose Settlements Restoration Program is taking action to restore those resources.

Learn more about the Montrose site, the Southern California Bight and nearby Channel Islands.

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MSRP Holds Public Meetings for Phase 2 Restoration Plan

MSRP released a Draft Phase 2 Restoration Plan for public comment on Monday, Oct. 17, 2011. The public comment period lasts 45 business days from this date. We are holding Public Meetings to provide an open forum for questions about the plan and to share our sucess from the Phase 1 Restoration Plan. Please join us for one of the following public meetings:

Wednesday, October 26, 2011, 6-8 pm
Channel Islands National Park
Robert J. Lagomarsino Visitor Center
1901 Spinnaker Drive, Ventura Harbor, CA 93001
(805) 658-5730

Wednesday, November 9, 2011, 6-8 pm
Point Vicente Interpretive Center
31501 Palos Verdes Drive West
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 90275
(310) 377-5370

Download the complete document and provide us your comments by email msrp@noaa.gov. The MSRP Program Overview fact sheet provides short summaries of Phase 1 and Phase 2 restoration projects.

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Adult Murrelet in nest on Santa Barbara Island.

This past Spring, biologists from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology recorded sounds from Xantus's Murrelets, Cassin�s Auklets, and Ashy Storm-Petrels, seabirds that commonly breed on the Northern Channel Islands. Scientists collected the sounds to better understand the variability of sounds that these seabirds make during the breeding season.

Listen to live recordings from the California Channel Islands!
Xantus�s Murrelets
Cassin�s Auklets
Ashy Storm-Petrels

Photo:
Adult Murrelet in nest on Santa Barbara Island. Murrelets are nocturnal and can only be found in their nests at night. (Laurie Harvey, National Park Service)