At the June 1st meeting of the California Coastal Conservancy the board approved $16,200,000 to the City of San Buenaventura (Ventura) to construct Phase 2 of the Surfers Point Managed Retreat Project, a sea level rise adaptation project that relocates existing infrastructure landward and restores beach dune habitat, in Ventura.
Surfrider submitted a support letter saying:
Surfers’ Point has been the flagship campaign of the Ventura County Chapter of the Surfrider Foundation since its inception in 1991. For more than 30 years our members have advocated for the community-based solution to coastal erosion offered by this project. The construction of the first phase in 2011 has proven the efficacy of this approach and we look forward to completing the project. In recent years the rapid loss of the remaining bike path and parking lot has increased the urgency to relocate this visitor serving infrastructure out of harms way. Implementation of the proven buried cobble berm and sand dunes will restore nature-based resiliency to this extremely popular stretch of coast.
Construction will begin after Labor Day, 2024
On this blog: Surfers Point
Reference:
COASTAL CONSERVANCY Project No. 08-057-02 Staff Recommendation June 1, 2023
In the News:
Ventura gets $16M to move crumbling path, parking lot farther from crashing waves
