Environmental Protection & America Waterway Watch

USCG Sea Partners Program

Request for Materials:  Our Water Planet (pamphlet), How’s the Water (pamphlet), Help Us Protect the Marine Environment (pamphlet), Guide for a Cleaner Boating Environment (pamphlet), Report Marine Pollution Sticker

Sea Partner Program, including the use of the new "Good Mate" manual and documents as part of that program.  PowerPoint and Word documents are available through D11NR Marine Safety Officer, ADSO-MS/E.

Additional USCG Publications and Information

Oceans and Coastal Protection US EPA Office of Water. Access to information on ocean discharges, ocean dumping, marine debris efforts.

Beach Watch US EPA Office of Water. Program provides grants to state, tribal, interstate, and local agencies to establish effective monitoring and public notification programs for beaches. The first federal site to contain information about local beach closings and conditions.

National Clean Boating Campaign

Clean Vessel Act Pumpout Program US Fish & Wildlife Service

International Coastal Cleanup - Center for Marine Conservation

NOAA Marine Fisheries Service - Endangered species and marine mammal information

NOAA National Ocean Service - Publications available on-line

National Estuary Program -US EPA. Information about this effort to protect and restore the health of estuaries while supporting economic and recreational activities

Nonpoint Source Pollution Control - US EPA. Access information about polluted runoff and exchange information about methods for reducing the affects of this environmental issue.

California Coastal Commission - Become a Coastal Steward (individuals and/or groups)

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Wonder what to do when seeing suspicious activity on or near a waterway.  Admiral Thad Allen explains in this three minute video.  Click the button below.

America’s Waterway Watch (AWW) is a Counter Terrorism public outreach effort by the Coast Guard, Coast Guard Auxiliary, and other federal, state and local agencies tasked with the responsibility of maritime security. The purpose of America’s Waterway Watch is to use the “eyes and ears” of waterfront users, such as boaters, marina operators and other waterfront concessionaires, to detect and report suspicious activity that may be terrorist related.A

District 11 North comprises one of the largest concentrations in the number and the size of the area occupied by the physical locations of ports, port support facilities, and waterfront located industries on the West Coast. The San Francisco Bay Area not only represents a major Critical Maritime Infrastructure vitally essential to the U.S. economy, it also presents possibly the highest visibility on an international scale of being an attractive and vulnerable terrorist target.

Therefore, Waterway Watch efforts in the San Francisco Bay Area should be concentrated on potential Maritime Infrastructure targets.  This would include all bridges, all port and port service facilities in San Francisco and Oakland particularly. Port facilities and oil refineries in Richmond. And, finally, the Waterway Watch program would include any industry, any fenced area, any building, or any waterfront facility, pier, or berth area that has a MARSEC sign displayed.

Additional Information on MARSEC Levels...link

FOR IMMEDIATE DANGER TO LIFE OR PROPERTY
CALL 911
OR US COAST GUARD ON MARINE CHANNEL 16 VHF-FM

                                                

LOOK FOR AND REPORT: Suspicious waterfront loitering Forcible access Persons photographing, taping or sketching Boaters seeming to be forcibly controlled Apparently dangerous loads and/or cargoes Items that appear to be weapons or explosives Boats loitering under bridges or by locks or dams Diving operations near any critical infrastructure Boats or divers in naval protection zones Note appearance, size, coloring of individuals Note type of boat, car, registration, etc. If diving is involved, note color of equipment

 

 

REPORT WHAT YOU SEE TO
1-877-24-WATCH (1-877-249-2824)

For Additional Information, visit:

 

                 America's Waterway Watch...link