Join us for the bi-monthly Sierra Sage of South Orange County general meeting tomorrow at the Norman P. Murray Community Center in Mission Viejo. We will gather in person at 6:30 PM and begin our meeting at 7:00 PM. Please RSVP at Newport Bay Trash Interceptor (sierraclub.org) <https://act.sierraclub.org/events/details?formcampaignid=7013q000002IFNHAA4 &mapLinkHref=> or by clicking on the QR code below. Meet the Newport Bay Trash Interceptor with Robert Stein, Newport Beach Ass't. City Engineer Rainy days fill our streams and rivers with rushing water. That rushing water brings tons of trash downstream where it ends up in our bays, harbors, and ocean. Literally tons of trash - 100 to 300 tons a year flow into the upper Newport Bay alone. The City of Newport Beach is developing a new tool to significantly capture trash before it reaches the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve and adjacent Marine-Protected Areas. The Trash Interceptor is a sustainably powered, floating trash and debris collection system currently under construction in San Diego Creek between the Jamboree Road Bridge and MacArthur Boulevard Bridge, upstream from the Upper Newport Bay Nature Preserve. Newport Beach Assistant City Engineer Robert Stein will discuss the efforts needed to make this project a reality and describe the benefits of this innovative project which is expected to reduce trash flow into the bay by 80 percent when it starts operation later this year. Join us on Tuesday, March 26 at 6:30 PM for an early, insider peek at this potentially game-changing system. Perhaps you can even suggest a nickname for the Trash Interceptor. RSVP: SIERRA SAGE OF SOUTH ORANGE COUNTY Invites you to our March 26 General Meeting ____ Learn about local efforts to protect our waterways ____ Share opportunities to get outdoors ____ Have fun with Sierra Club members. ____ These are a few of the benefits of membership Sierra Sage of South Orange County Tuesday, March 26, 2024 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM Norman P. Murray Community Center, 24932 Veterans Way, Mission Viejo, CA 92692 https://sierrasage.org We hope to see you all there, but if you are unable to attend in person, but would still like to see the presentation, it will be live-streamed on You Tube : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSyrXmCn63M. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe from the ANGELES-SIERRA-SAGE-NEWS list, send any message to [log in to unmask] Users of Listserv are subject to the Sierra Club's Terms and Conditions (http://www.sierraclub.org/terms). For more information, see our support site (http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp).