Beach Issue News

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.