By Christina Macone-Greene
The Coast News
CARLSBAD — The Batiquitos Lagoon will undergo weeks of activity for ecosystem enrichment efforts. Its dredging project, championed by the California Department Fish and Game and State Land Commission, will remove sand from the lagoon and move it to South Carlsbad State Beach and to the nearby bluffs in Encinitas.
March 2,
2011
Erosion study slides along
By Lily Bixler
Half Moon Bay Review
Efforts to save Surfer's Beach progressed in February despite a state agency asking whether the public beach is worth saving at all.
February 15,
2011
Ventura needs more cobble for beach restoration
By Kevin Clerici
Ventura County Star
A much-watched Ventura city project to replace a crumbling bike path along
the coast and restore the beach remains on schedule to be completed in May
but will require up to an additional $180,000 worth of rock cobble, city
engineers said.
February 2,
2011
ENCINITAS: Beach sand replenishment project's environmental documents unveiled
By Barbara Henry
North County Times
About 20 regional city officials, surfers and others interested in beaches
came to Encinitas City Hall to hear officials with the regional San Diego
Association of Governments talk about their latest plans, which would add
upwards of 1.7 million cubic yards of sand to San Diego County's beaches.
February 1,
2011
City Council uses another $65k for sand replenishment
By Nathan Scharn
North County Times
CARLSBAD - The City Council has decided to use $65,000 for a regional
project that would replenish sand on county beaches.
January 16,
2011
In Ventura, a retreat in the face of a rising sea
By Tony Barboza
Los Angeles Times
At Surfers Point in Ventura, California is beginning its retreat from the
ocean. Construction crews are removing a crumbling bike path, ripping out a 120-space parking lot and laying down sand and cobblestones. By pushing the
asphalt 65 feet inland, the project is expected to give the wave-ravaged
point 50 more years of life.
January 12,
2011
Bluff Collapses in Leucadia; No Injuries or Damage Reported
By Jennifer Reed
Encinitas Patch
Part of an oceanfront bluff above Leucadia State Beach collapsed Wednesday afternoon, but no injuries or damage to homes on top of the ridge were reported, authorities said. A cliff in the 1500 block of Neptune Avenue gave way at about 3 p.m., Encinitas lifeguard Capt. Larry Giles said. According to Giles, the site of the collapse was just below another cliff failure that occurred last month.
January 12,
2011
ENCINITAS: Bluff collapses in Leucadia
By Morgan Cook and Lyndsay Winkley
North County Times
A wooden staircase was destroyed Wednesday during the largest of a recent
series of bluff collapses along Leucadia beaches, authorities said.
A lattice of railroad ties that had been straining against the partially
collapsed bluff in the 1500 block of Neptune Avenue gave way about 3:30
p.m., Encinitas lifeguard supervisor Robert Veria said. Authorities warned
beach-goers to stay away from the bluff because soggy earth had slid against
the supportive railroad ties Dec. 28, pushing them to a 45-degree angle.
October 31,
2010
Construction by Malibu homeowners stirs up anger over public beach access
By Tony Barboza
Los Angeles Times
For years, Broad Beach has been the epicenter of high-profile battles over
public access, and now chains, locks and barricades that have blocked the
only two entrances to the beach have revived that fight. The gates were
locked last winter when residents got an emergency permit from the California Coastal Commission to build a 1.1-mile seawall to protect their
multimillion-dollar homes from the advancing ocean.
June 27,
2010
Beach is left in the lurch as state vetoes sea wall
By Tanya Mannes
San Diego Union-Tribune
California State Parks won’t allow the city of Encinitas to use a sea wall to stabilize a shaky bluff that city officials fear could collapse and take with it a blufftop parking lot and trail leading down to Beacon’s Beach, a popular surfing spot. Ronie Clark, the state park agency’s southern division chief, said the 100-foot bluff is “an active landslide” but noted that the state’s park policy prohibits sea walls.
August 21,
2009
City is looking for some good sand
Permit allows easier beach replenishment
By Tanya Mannes
San Diego Union-Tribune
ENCINITAS - With a coastal permit in hand, Encinitas is looking for some
good sand from construction sites to replenish city beaches.
July 13,
2009
California budget threat to state parks doesn't apply to an off-roader favorite
By Zachary Slobig
Los Angeles Times
Oceano Dunes, owned and operated by the state, is open to motor vehicles. It's not on the governor's closure list, but advocates of the western snowy plover want it shut to protect the birds.
July 7,
2009
EDITORIAL: Study the sand, by all means
OUR VIEW: Putting sand down more than satisfies the risk/reward calculation
By the North County Times Opinion staff
We fully support a SANDAG environment study expected to set the stage on a
new round of sand replenishment and expect the study to support beginning
the process of pumping new sand on our most valuable tourism asset.
July 4,
2009
Study says two-thirds of state beaches eroding
Decades ago, about 40 percent of California's beaches were eroding while the
rest were actually growing a little bit over time. But in the past 25 years,
the number of beaches along the state's 1,100-mile coastline that have been
losing ground has swelled to two-thirds of the total, according to a new
study.
June 28,
2009
Rising sea prompts concern about sand replenishment
But SANDAG officials learned lessons from 2001 beach project.
June 5,
2009
SANDAG to study artificial reef
A regional planning agency is setting the stage for a 2012 sand
replenishment project like the one that dumped enough sand on county beaches
in 2001 to fill Qualcomm Stadium. SANDAG says it is going to evaluate the
consequences of pumping sand onto the beach from the ocean floor, and of
building a model sand retention structure at Solana Beach.
January 8, 2009
Encinitas begins beach replenishment with construction-site sand
ENCINITAS - Trucks began carrying loads of high-quality sand Thursday from a
construction project in downtown Encinitas to one of the city's narrow
beaches in the first sand replenishment project of its kind in the county
since 1995.
September 22, 2008
Portion of Torrey Pines beach closed after cliff collapse
TORREY PINES STATE BEACH - A cliff collapse Monday morning has prompted
authorities to close off a section of beach, according to San Diego
lifeguards. It is the second collapse at Torrey Pines State Beach in the
past month.
