Wetlands Issues News


December 23, 2008
State budget crisis halts wetlands work
California's budget crisis has caused a shutdown of wetlands recovery
projects in five Southern California counties. San Diego County is
especially hard hit because it has more wetlands than the others.

February 22, 2008
Judge stalls plan for Home Depot in Long Beach
A controversial Home Depot project in Long Beach -- planned across the street from one of the region's last coastal wetlands -- is in limbo after a judge Thursday tossed out the development's environmental report.

February 14, 2008
Sewer line in the works to run beneath river in Del Mar
DEL MAR - Plans to replace a sewer line beneath the San Dieguito River appear to have the support of the city of Del Mar and planners of a wetlands restoration project upstream.

February 5, 2008
Vista, Carlsbad reach deal with water quality regulators
VISTA -- City officials in Vista and Carlsbad have hammered out a tentative deal with water quality regulators that could lessen the penalty for the 7.3 million gallon sewage spill last spring that fouled Buena Vista lagoon.

January 27, 2008
Newport Beach harbor is in shallow trouble
A dredging project is running out of money before the work is done, leaving both boaters and bird-watchers unhappy.

October 27, 2007
Glass wall has birders seeing red
Conservationists are calling for a developer to take down a nearly mile-long glass wall built around a new housing development near the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve in Huntington Beach after they say at least a dozen birds, including several birds of prey, died when they flew into the structure.

October 21, 2007
Time-share project proposed for lagoon site
CARLSBAD  ---- The owners of a private boating club along the north side of Agua Hedionda Lagoon are proposing to transform their decades-old, low-key operation by adding a 26-unit, time-share condominium complex.

September 29, 2007
Sewage spill could cost cities nearly $1.1 million
CARLSBAD - A regulatory agency is considering slapping the cities of Vista and Carlsbad with a $1.1 million fine over a massive sewage spill that occurred this year at Buena Vista Lagoon.

Hotel near lagoon opposed in report
OCEANSIDE - The California Coastal Commission's staff has recommended that the panel reject plans for an 82-unit hotel just north of Buena Vista Lagoon in Oceanside

September 6, 2007
Carlsbad commission delays Ponto vote
CARLSBAD -- Saying they still had many questions relating to traffic and other topics, Carlsbad's planning commissioners delayed a decision Wednesday on a controversial plan to guide development in the southern coastal area known as Ponto.