BLOG 24!

1. "The state has funded the program since 1999.Thousands of people visit San Diego beaches each year.The ocean testing helps alert swimmers when it's not safe to swim."This is a small excerpt from "state resumes paying for beach water testing in San Diego county". You can read the entire article at http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/jul/10/state-resumes-paying-beach-water-testing-san-diego/.
2. this article is summarizing the entire battle for the children's pool, it gives information about the beach, and what would need to be done before children could return to it. http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2009/02/17/opinion/01foster021709.txt
3. Seals Get To Stay At La Jolla Children's Pool... For Nownews link: http://www.cbs8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10778651Summary: Many court arguments have been mostly about people wanting to get rid of the seals and others who are in favor of the seals. They want them to be there in their natural habbitat. The city planned to scare off two hundred seals using recorded dog barks. Arnold Schwarzenneger signed a bill permitting the cove to be used as a marine mammal park.
4. this artical gives some very good piont on why to keep the seals there, it also explains some of the rules that are set in place at childrens pool, it also gives some back ground information that i did not know yet. http://www.amwest-travel.com/awt_sdseal.html. "At the la jolla childrens pool, wild seals congregate without fear of human harassment. People are allowed to mingle freely on this beach as long as they don't bother the seals."
5. http://www.10news.com/news/21606828/detail.html it is just a very recent artical about the recent ruling that the seals have won and will be allowed to stay. "A colony of harbor seals that took over a beach in La Jolla that had been willed to children will be allowed to stay, a judge ruled Friday, possibly bringing an end to the prolonged legal tug-of-war over the cove."