I read with interest and support and echo the views of Jim Gilhooly, in the guest editorial “Assessing the state of the wastewater facility” (Nov. 6 Beacon, page 6). I wish to comment on the decrepit quality of the local ocean waters in areas used by bathers, swimmers and surfers. All of these ocean users experience the greasy residual effect of being in the ever-murky ocean and, unfortunately, the frequent malodorous effect as well. I was shocked this year in my first trip to the Caribbean, primarily in an island of Belize, that the natural ocean is not malodorous, greasy or murky. I would like to see scientifically established the cause of our local ocean’s pervasive pollution. I strongly suspect that the cause is the daily discharge by the city of 100 to 300 million gallons of effluent into ocean; certainly, the ocean is not prejudiced against San Diego. But, given the disingenuous testimony of Scripps “scientists” hired by the city to fight against upgrading the Point Loma sewage conveyance plant — like Roger Revelle, who said “Sewage is good for the ocean” — we may be awaiting the truth a long time.