High surf prompts city lifeguards to close public access to Ocean Beach pier [Breaking]
High surf conditions prompted San Diego city lifeguards to shut down access to the Ocean Beach pier on Thursday morning.
The pier was shut down around 10:15 a.m., according to a tweet put out by the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. A storm system brought heavy surf and rain to the San Diego region early Thursday. which opened in the mid-1960s, has suffered damage in recent years during winter storms. At 1,971 feet long, it is the second-longest ocean pier in California and the longest concrete pier in the world.City officials are in the process of evaluating long-term solutions to preserve the popular attraction, including options to design and build a replacement of the structure, which consultants in 2019 determined had exceeded its service life.
In October, the San Diego City Council approved the $8 million contract with Long Beach-based engineering consultant Moffatt & Nichol for a study to begin the planning process for replacing the pier. Plans call for construction of a new pier to begin by 2026.seeking to block the agreement saying the city “failed to follow basic transparency rules or to consider environmental factors as required by state law.
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