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Water from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton's boat basin begins to overflow with algae due to the pollution promoting gowth and limiting the water's oxygen. - Water from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton's boat basin begins to overflow with algae due to the pollution promoting gowth and limiting the water's oxygen.

Stormwater breaks new ground in fundraiser fight

California’s water pollution problem was not caused by toppled oil tankers or flowing industrial waste; it was the driveway-oil spills and household chemicals carried off by rainwater that caused the pollution we see today, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. In 2003, California’s State Water Resources Control Board passed a general

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One of the more than 40 students from Santa Margarita Elementary School, Oceanside Unified School District, reads aloud a letter written to the two service members representing Marines and sailors stationed at Wounded Warrior Battalion West on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. - One of the more than 40 students from Santa Margarita Elementary School, Oceanside Unified School District, reads aloud a letter written to the two service members representing Marines and sailors stationed at Wounded Warrior Battalion West on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif.

Students reach out to wounded warriors

Two classes at Santa Margarita Elementary School partnered up to give Pendleton’s Wounded Warriors a brighter Christmas morning, Thursday. More than 40 students from Santa Margarita Elementary School, Oceanside Unified School District, invited two service members, stationed at Wounded Warrior Battalion West, to pick up the 23 gifts students had

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VA expands veterans’ benefits

More veterans are now eligible for benefits under the Traumatic Service member’s Group Life Insurance after the Department of Veteran Affairs announced improvements to policy, Dec. 8. Designed to benefit severely injured military personnel and veterans, the congressionally-mandated program has expanded qualifying categories and increased the number

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Archeological staff contracted through the Assistant Chief of Staff’s Environmental Security Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton sift through remains and artificats on base. - Archeological staff contracted through the Assistant Chief of Staff’s Environmental Security Office, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton sift through remains and artificats on base.

Archeology technology unearths new ground

X-ray machines have gone beyond hospital operating rooms and gone mobile with geophysicists, helping them find artifacts at excavation sites across Camp Pendleton. The handheld X-ray device, or magnetometer, provides archeological staff with information on where to break ground. Magnetometers have been available to the archeological community for

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