Clean Water Starts with You! If you change the oil in your boat yourself, it’s easy, free, and convenient to recycle your used oil, filter, and bilge pads here at the harbor. These materials can have negative affects on human health and, if spilled or otherwise improperly handled, can severely damage our aquatic environment.
Oil Recycling Facility at Pillar Point Harbor:
Used Motor Oil
Available to all Harbor tenants – see Harbormaster’s office for assistance
No Charge
Limited to uncontaminated used motor oil
Located next to the harbor maintenance yard
Used Filters and Bilge Pads
Available to all Harbor tenants – see Harbormaster’s office for assistance
No Charge
Located next to the harbor maintenance yard
Contaminated Oil and Miscellaneous Hazardous Materials (Antifreeze, Paint, Solvents, etc)
We are unable to accept contaminated oil and household hazardous waste. For free disposal of these materials please contact the San Mateo County Housedhold Hazardous Waste Program. Visit www.smhealth.org/hhw or call 650-363-4718 to make an appointment.
Harbor Commission Supports Alliance of Communities for
Sustainable Fisheries Service The San Mateo County Harbor
District has adopted a resolution supporting the recently formed Alliance of
Communities For Sustainable Fisheries. The Alliance was formed several
months ago by fishermen from the four harbors that adjoin or lie within the
Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Pillar Point, Santa Cruz, Moss Landing,
and Monterey. Representatives from the harbors were actively involved with
the fishermen in getting the organization underway. The group was formed
to provide a more vocal and informed voice in the Sanctuary Management Plan
review process now underway for Monterey, Gulf of the Farallones, and Cordell
Bank Sanctuaries, and in federal and state consideration of establishing
marine reserves in which fishing could be prohibited.
Pillar Point fishermen have organized themselves to actively participate
in the Alliance's activities. These include participating in State Department
of Fish and Game hearings regarding Marine Life Protection Act (MLPA) implementation,
Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council meetings, other meetings with staff of
the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), that oversees
the Sanctuary Program, the recent meeting of the port and harbor advocacy
group, the California Marine Affairs and Navigation Conference, in Half Moon
Bay, and in developing information and questions for use in the Sanctuary
review and MLPA processes.
If you change the oil in your boat yourself, it’s easy, free, and convenient to recycle your used oil, filter, and bilge pads here at the harbor. These materials can have negative affects on human health and, if spilled or otherwise improperly handled, can severely damage our aquatic environment.
One Johnson Pier