SANDAG lays groundwork to dredge nearshore ocean deposits and replenish county beaches for third time
Carlsbad could be the next coastal North County city to join the San Diego Association of Governments’ proposal to launch a third regional beach sand replenishment project.
The regional beach sand project would be San Diego County’s third, said Keith Greer, SANDAG’s environmental planning manager. Coastal cities have Oceanside to thank for the agency’s efforts to launch a third project, Greer said. Encinitas and Solana Beach have been working together for more than 10 years on a sand project with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. That project has obtained funding and approval and is scheduled to begin next year.
One of the biggest expenses is the use of a special dredge, like a floating crane, to extract the sand and send it to shore. The 2012 project required bringing a dredge from the East Coast, through the Panama Canal, which increased the overall costs by $5 million. San Diego Gas & Electric Co. began dredging the Agua Hedionda Lagoon in Carlsbad in the 1950s to keep the lagoon deep enough for the Encina power plant to draw seawater for cooling.
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