It’s official: at last night’s Long Beach City Council meeting, the council voted 8-0 to approve restoring Colorado Lagoon–in the process, someday cutting a channel through Marina Vista Park that would reconnect the lagoon with Marine Stadium.
(Bisecting Marina Vista Park will later be subject to another council vote–and to approval from the California Coastal Commission.)
As [...]

Lifetime environmental pioneer Dorothy Green died Monday night at age 79, and it’s hard not to notice that she passed away just six days after the Long Beach City Council voted unanimously to call Long Beach the “Aquatic Capital of America.”
Green founded Heal The Bay, the landmark organization that has monitored ocean water quality along [...]

Last Monday night, city officials took their plans to bisect Marina Vista Park by connecting the Colorado Lagoon and Marine Stadium out to the people–at a packed, sometimes contentious public meeting in an elementary school auditorium in Belmont Shore.
(With rows of uncomfortable seating that were fine when we were in grade school–but now just remind [...]