South Santa Monica Bay Watershed
Nancy Shrodes
Heal the Bay
nshrodes@healthebay.org
Although the South Santa Monica Bay is only 87 square miles, it contains over one million residents, making it a lively, bustling watershed. Combining dense urban and residential areas with miles of waterfronts, hills, and wetlands, this watershed has multiple natural aquifers and some of the most famous beaches in California. Culturally, the South Santa Monica Bay has a wide variety of neighborhoods, food, music, and art.
I went to grad school for water resource engineering and grew up in the South Bay, so I guess you could say I’ve always dreamed of this role. I co-created a program at Heal the Bay called ‘Know the Flow’ and it’s just awesome to meld my experience and technical expertise to help create new projects. The best analogy to me is that a watershed coordinator is the host of a dinner party, and I’m really trying to be the connector between community groups and public agencies with the Safe, Clean Water Program. I love spending time at the Aquarium at Cabrillo or Abalone Cove.
– Your Watershed Coordinator Nancy
Get in touch with Nancy to learn about how we can create exciting water capture projects in your community.
From the Community
Watershed Area Steering Committee Members
Watershed committee members work with the watershed coordinators to develop investment plans for their watershed.
Geraldine Trivedi
EWMP: Beach Cities
Marcela Benavides-Aguilar
LA County Flood Control District
E.J. Caldwell
West Basin
Rob Beste
Water Replenishment District
Dave Pierce
LA County Sanitation Districts
Cathie Santo Domingo
Los Angeles Recreation & Parks
Hany Fangary
Fangary Law Group
Bo Savage
Los Angeles Conservation Corps
Caryn Mandelbaum
Resident
Gilbert Marquez
City of Carson
Susie Santilena
City of Los Angeles
Thuan Nguyen
Los Angeles County
James Flannigan
City of Torrance
Carla Dillon
EWMP: Dominguez
Vanessa Hevener
EWMP: Peninsula
Nancy Shrodes
Heal the Bay
Events
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Resources
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