1. Protect beneficial uses: Develop and set water quality objectives to prevent point and non point pollutant sources and pathogens from adversely affecting the beneficial uses of the watershed and nearshore environments.

2. Protect recreation. Ensure swimming, surfing and fishing without adverse heath effects caused posed by poor water quality. Protect appropriate recreational opportunities such as surfing, swimming, sport fishing, sailing and hiking in the creek, lagoon and surf system as long as it doesn’t impact other beneficial uses.

3. Protect ecosystem/endangered species.
•Enhance and protect lagoon, creek, beach and intertidal habitats for threatened and endangered species, native biodiversity and riparian habitat.
•Attain and maintain water and sediments of sufficient quality to support a health creek, lagoon and surfzone, taking into account interactive impacts.
•Prevent any increased input of substances in toxic concentrations into the watershed and surfzone.
•Reduce habitat degradation caused by road/bridge building encroachments and dumping of road materials, and adopt ordinances and watershed-wide joint powers agreements to do so.

4. Eliminate or reduce sources. Eliminate or reduce, by sub-watershed area, sources of harmful pathogens, toxic chemicals, sediments and nutrients.

5. Biological standards. Establish viable minimum habitat standards to support native species of locality.

6. Monitor pathogens. Use appropriate testing techniques to determine the presence of pathogens and test for compliance with established standards. Pathogen testing should be implemented when and where bacteria counts are high.

7. Reduce pathogens. Reduce human pathogen inputs into the watershed.

8. Study nutrients. Determine and establish nutrient standards to maintain natural populations.

9. Reduce nutrients. Reduce nutrient loads into the watershed. Reduce nutrient levels to natural background levels. Encourage the Tapia Treatment Plant to employ state-of-the-art technology to remove nutrients from their discharges.

10. Reduce accelerated sedimentation. Historical seasonal sediment flow to beaches should be allowed. Human-augmented sediment discharges into the watershed should be reduced by:
•Enforcing erosion control regulations on a sub-watershed basis.
•Encouraging all cities and the County to adopt ordinances of no net increase in sediment from any development into the watershed.
•Adopting watershed-wide ordinances to reduce sediment runoff from private property.
•Minimizing the loss of topsoil in developing areas through implementation and enforcement of BMPs.
•Eliminating dumping of dirt on road shoulders.
•Eliminating massive grading within the watershed.

11. Fire regulation - erosion control. Modify fire regulation practices and weed abatement programs to reduce erosion. One method is to require mowing rather than discing of weed setback zones.

12. Temperature. Establish water temperature policies for fisheries.

13. Storm drains. Employ appropriate BMPs for storm drains throughout the watershed. Stencil all catch basin inlets (storm drains).

14. Mobile car washes. Regulate mobile car washes to prevent discharges from reaching the creek and lagoon.

15. Illegal drains. Eliminate known illegal storm drains entering the watershed.

16. Septic systems (same as #23).

17. Trash/park sanitation. Maintain sanitary conditions in parklands. Link to education in English and Spanish to prevent trashing of resources. Manage and eliminate the harmful impacts of day use, including campers, picnickers and transients on water quality.

18. Confined animals. Develop BMPs for livestock waste management

19. Household irrigated runoff. As an example of potentially large quantities of household irrigation runoff, survey households in upper Medea Creek development to determine reasons and solutions for extraordinary water runoff and report to advisory committee.

20. Restore/enhance Malibu Lagoon and surfzone. Restore and/or enhance Malibu Lagoon, including threatened and endangered species.

21. Assess sources/characteristics.
•Conduct a thorough and definitive study of lagoon water quality, identify all pollution sources, and develop a remediation plan strategy.
•Develop a comprehensive picture of the hydrology, circulation, biota of the lower creek and lagoon and surfzone for policy decision making.
•Perform quarterly toxic chemical tests in Malibu Lagoon and surfzone.

22. Illegal drains. Eliminate known illegal storm drains entering the lagoon and particularly investigate sources emptying into the unclaimed storm drain.

23. Septic Systems. Implement dye study of the septic systems in the vicinity of the lagoon and surfzone. Study all identified septic systems and replace all malfunctioning septic systems.

24. Lagoon/water level breaching. Evaluate options for regulating lagoon water level without artificial breaching of the lagoon. Prevent unnatural breaching of the creek/lagoon.

25. Public notices.
•Breaching/public health: Regular notices to inform the public and agencies about breaching times of lagoons.
•Encourage Los Angeles newspapers to publish weekly monitoring bacteria results at beach entrances.
•Implement public notification and educational programs about potential health problems at beaches.

26. Malibu Lagoon/bridge. CalTrans should set up a mitigation fund to cover the costs of any impacts to Malibu Lagoon and the surfzone resulting from the reconstruction of Malibu’s Pacific Coast Highway Bridge.

27. Landfill. Expand the understanding of the impact of the Calabasas landfill on water quality and especially ensure that Calabasas landfill installs monitoring wells which they were directed to construct in 1990; report monitoring results of findings to the advisory committee.

28. Water imports and discharge. Maximize environmentally acceptable reuse of reclaimed wastewater (household and treatment plant) and greywater, and reduce the importation of potable water. Encourage use of reclaimed water for irrigation of landscaping and community open space. Price reclaimed water more competitively. Harmoniously implement water conservation efforts and greywater ordinances between cities. Ultimate long-term goal of no-waste discharges into waters used for recreation and/or for sources of food.

29. Composting, recycling, conservation. Implement improved recycling efforts. Maximize treatment and reuse potential of all aspects of the watershed’s waste disposal operations (septic, sewer, sludge farming, and landfill operations).
•Encourage composting and other forms of recycling for waste management.
•Encourage recycling and reuse efforts to reuse water, household hazardous waste, plastics, paper, glass, cardboard, tin and aluminum.

30. Public education: water conservation. Develop individual support for conservation practices through education, training and workshops which would reduce sediment and storm water runoff from private property.

31. Runoff reduction. Develop land use decision-making approaches (including land use zoning and ordinances) to reduce point and non-point sources of pollution. Specifically, new developments within the watershed should employ on-site reuse of reclaimed water so that there is no net increase of water into the watershed. Develop and implement: 1) guidelines for minimizing and mitigating ecological disturbances related to point and nonpoint water flows into "unimproved" coastal streams; and 2) watershed-wide ordinances which would reduce storm water runoff from private property.

32. Recreational use impacts. Reconcile demands for public access and resource protection regarding trails and roads.

33. Land Purchases. Purchase high priority watershed protection areas.

34. Buffer Zones. Develop and mandate site specific buffer zones for sensitive areas.

35. Habitat fragmentation. Develop and implement land use policy that will eliminate any additional habitat fragmentation. Support existing corridors between isolated open lands and establish alternatives where feasible.

36. Fish barriers. Remove barriers to fish migration, especially Rindge Dam.

37. Exotic vegetation. Support control of the intrusion of exotic plants into the wilderness areas of the watershed.

38. Wetlands. Maintain, restore, create and enhance wetlands (natural and created).

39. Coordinate on a watershed basis. Create and implement a regional and sub-watershed approach to the coordination of land use and water quality decisions for ongoing implementation concerns and to reduce unnecessary overlaps of ordinances and streamline regulations.
•Develop guidelines to reconcile the attainment of water quality objectives and resource protection with other, possibly conflicting public service goals, such as fire protection, flood control, and geologic stability.
•Build support for the implementation of the mediation recommendations (research studies, ordinances, joint agreements, etc.) among agency staff and non-agency stakeholders who are working on management plans which affect the watershed – RCD/SCS Natural Resource Plan, SMBRP Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan, LA County NPDES storm water permit, City of Malibu Wastewater Management Plan, General Plans of area cities and the LA County 101 Corridor/Cities Area Plan Update.
•Establish mechanisms, including joint powers authorities (JPAs), watershed commissions, special districts or other cooperative efforts for the integration of efforts aimed at coordinating, planning, and/or implementation where multi, general-purpose jurisdictions exist.
•Develop and field test interactive models to facilitate systems-based watershed planning and management decisions.
•Identify and create appropriate financing options which work and are cost effective, including joint financing options so duplication is avoided.

40. Enforcement: general. Develop effective means to enforce pollutant reduction programs.

41. Enforcement – Camping. Enforce existing camping restrictions within the watershed.

42. Public Education. Emphasize and encourage ongoing public education.
•Create a non-point source pollution education program for watershed occupants.
•Develop an Adopt-A-Watershed program that is watershed-wide.
•Implement effective educational programs about the need for urban and non-urban preservation of open space.

43. Watershed Monitoring. Develop and implement a coordinated and integrated watershed monitoring program.
•Create a centralized database of water quality and resource data accessible to all parties.
•Develop a coordinated GIS database network, including a detailed land use map with all septic systems and storm drains, which is accessible to all parties.

44. Watershed assessment. Identify, by sub-watershed area, sources of harmful pathogens, toxic chemicals, sediments and nutrients.
•Expand an understanding of the hydrology of the watershed and nearshore bathymetry. Agree on needed research on what appropriate and attainable seasonable flows should be for Malibu Creek, Lagoon and nearshore areas.
•Identify and apply suitable models to help target and prioritize pollution prevention, reduction and abatement measures.
•Raise funding for and implement study on the health effects of urban runoff on surfers, incorporating Surfrider Beach into the design.
•Establish a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) model for all inputs to the watershed.
•Develop a research agenda to expand understanding about impacts of land use practices in the watershed.