Surfrider Foundation Santa Cruz Chapter

Ocean Needs More Friends + 40th Anniversary

Surfrider’s 2024 Membership Drive Starts Now! 👏🌊

We encourage you to celebrate our 40th Anniversary with us by becoming a member of the Santa Cruz chapter!

From fighting climate change to protecting clean water and tackling single-use plastics, when you join our grassroots network, we can create the groundswell of momentum needed to protect our ocean and coasts for future generations. 💙

Head to the link in bio to donate to our chapter now!

Did you know that the day after the 4th of July is the dirtiest beach day of the year?

As beachgoers head to the coasts in record numbers, our beloved ocean and beaches are battered with plastic pollution and litter, making July 5th the “dirtiest beach day of the year.”

Surfrider chapters nationwide are stepping up their cleanup efforts on July 5th to remove all the trash left after the celebrations.

Last year, over 1,300 Surfrider volunteers attended 30 cleanups and removed and sorted over 100,000 pounds of trash!

Head to the link in our bio to sign up for our July 5th cleanup at Manresa State Beach and donate to support clean beaches all year.

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, June 2, 2024

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🏼‍♂️🧪 🌊

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, May 19, 2024

Blue water, blue skies this week! 🌊 Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🏼‍♂️🧪

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, May 12, 2024 🌊 Thank you to the sampling & lab team for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄

Join us this Saturday for a cleanup at this years Logjam! hosted by

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, April 21, 2024 🌊

Very happy to see clean water this week! Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🏼‍♂️🧪

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, April 14, 2024 🌊

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, April 7, 2024 🌊

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🏼‍♂️🏄🏼‍♀️🏄

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, March 31, 2024 🌊

We measure enterococcus bacteria levels in the bay and compare them to water quality standards set to protect public health. Following the weekend storms & rain, our results show mid-high enterococcus levels at most sites tested. 🧪

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🤙

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, March 24, 2024 🌊🌊🌊

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results! If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🧪

Surfrider is dedicated to beach access for all! Rio Del Mar Beach Island Homeowners Association (HOA) has put up another fence restricting public walkways access along Sea Cliff State Beach. This has been an ongoing battle between the HOA and the California Coastal Commission for many years. Surfrider Santa Cruz supports the CCC fine and ruling, with hopes that progress to restore public access is made soon. Swipe to learn more and stay tuned for updates!

Surfrider’s Ocean Recreation Hill Day was a success !Surfrider Santa Cruz policy coordinator Bryan Hackett joined fellow members to discuss with representatives funding for the BEACH Act, supporting the Plastic Pellet Free Waters Act, and opposing new offshore oil drilling. Interested in joining local and global policy conversations? Reach out to join our team! 🌊.

See you there !!

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, February 25, 2024 🌊🌞

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results! If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🧪

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s testing results from Sunday, February 18th 🌊🌊

We measure enterococcus bacteria levels in the bay and compare them to water quality standards set to protect public health. Following the weekend storms & rain, our results show high enterococcus levels at most sites tested.

Big thanks to the sampling & lab teams for bringing us these results each week. If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out! 🏄🧪

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, February 11, 2024 🌊

Thank you to the sampling & lab teams for these results! If you’re interested in volunteering with the Santa Cruz BWTF, please reach out 🏄🧪

Capitola Beach Cleanup was a success ! Big thank you to our amazing new beach cleanup coordinator Carolyn for making it happen, and to our awesome community that showed up! Stay tuned for next months date and location 🌊

Interested in getting more involved with Surfrider Santa Cruz? Join us for a cleanup Saturday February 10th from 9AM-12 at Capitola Beach! 🌊 Meet in the courtyard in front of Britannia Arms to grab some gear and head out with the team !

Time to share the stoke! Join us at Beer Thirty February 5th from 5:30-7:30 to meet the new executive committee members and learn about upcoming chapter volunteer opportunities. Hope to see you there !

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, January 21, 2023 💧

This week we saw low bacteria levels at all sites measured (=

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s testing results from Sunday, January 14th 🌊🌊🌊

We measure enterococcus bacteria levels in the bay and compare them to water quality standards set to protect public health.

This week, our results show high enterococcus levels at Rio Del Mar (216 MPN/100mL) and New Brighton (177 MPN/100mL), medium levels at Platforms Beach (50 MPN/100mL) and low levels at Cowell’s Beach (

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s testing results from earlier this week, Sunday, January 7th 🌊

Big thanks to the sampling & lab teams for bringing us these results 🤙 🌊🏄🏼‍♂️🧪

Happy 2024, Santa Cruz! Here are the SC Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, December 31, 2023 💧

We closed out 2023 with some storms, rain & massive swell 🌊 With all of the debris on our beaches lately, let’s all try to pick up a few extra pieces of litter this week ♻️🪣🚬 Be safe out there & always keep an eye on the ocean!

Our SC BWTF is grateful to welcome a new incubator into our lab so we will be back to regular weekly testing! 🧪 Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team! 🤙

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, October 29th 🌊

Spooky to see how many plastic wrappers are around town today 👻😵‍💫 We challenge each of you to pick up 3 pieces today! 🍬🍬🍬 comment below once you do! ✅♻️🚮

Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team! 🤙

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, October 15th! 💧🧪

Shout out to the BWTF sampling & lab team members for collecting this data 🤙 Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team! 🏄 🌊🌊🌊

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, September 24th! 💧🧪

Enjoy the waves this week 🌊🌊 As always, big thanks to the BWTF sampling & lab team members 🤙 Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team! 🏄

Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, September 10th! 🌊🌊🌊 Happy to see cleaner water this week 🏄

Thanks to the BWTF sampling & lab team members 🤙 Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team! 🧪

Check out the Santa Cruz Blue Water Task Force’s water quality results from Sunday, August 13th! 🧪🌊🌥️

Big thanks to the BWTF sampling & lab team members 💙 Swipe for testing details & message us if you would like to join the team!