Restoration allows more sand to accumulate faster east of Coast Highway 101
Sand has filled in the San Elijo Lagoon inlet at the Cardiff State Beach bridge in Encinitas, blocking the flow of water blocking the flow of water into the lagoon.The mouth of the San Elijo Lagoon, where a $120 million restoration was completed three years ago, is filling with sand faster than ever, a condition that endangers the wildlife there.
Fortunately, the weather turned cooler this week. The die-off slowed or stopped, and shore birds quickly cleaned up most of the evidence. Still, the winter rains that naturally restore the lagoon are months away. “By widening the channel , we get three times as much tidal flow into the lagoon,” Bright said. “But what it’s also doing is bringing more sand in.”
“We knew we would still have to continue opening the inlet,” Bright said. However, the maintenance has become more than expected. Every year, sand from the opening is used to widen nearby beaches. During the restoration, thousands of additional cubic yards of sand dredged from the lagoon were used to expand more than half a mile of the shoreline at Cardiff State Beach.
Sand from those projects also is placed on nearby beaches to slow the effects of coastal erosion. A number of additional local and regional replenishment projects have been completed and more are planned to dredge offshore sand and place it on the shrinking shoreline.
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