Long-planned federal project will shore up coastline and protect miles of endangered railway
A 50-year beach nourishment project starting this fall in San Clemente will get its sand offshore from another sand-starved beach town — Oceanside.
Coastal cities throughout Southern California share the problem of beach erosion. Prevailing ocean currents carry sand along the shore from north to south, so eventually some of the material should return to Oceanside. U.S. Rep. Mike Levin, D-San Juan Capistrano, has championed beach nourishment projects and helped get federal funding to pay for them. He held news conferences Thursday in Solana Beach and San Clemente to announce agreements with the Corps of Engineers that will allow the two projects in his congressional district to begin.
The barge that dredges the sand will carry it from Oceanside about 20 miles north to San Clemente, Cheung said. Then it will anchor at a depth of about 25 feet, 1,500 feet from the San Clemente shore, hook up to a submerged pipe and pump the sand in a slurry onto the beach. “This project, which will protect and preserve our beaches and bluffs from coastal erosion, represents the culmination of years of planning and coordination between the cities of Solana Beach and Encinitas, State Parks’ Division of Boating and Waterways, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,” said Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner in a news release Thursday. She also thanked Levin for helping to obtain the funding.
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