Board of Supervisors pass motion to create new incentives, ideas for stopping beach erosion.
Eroding sand along Malibu beach. The sand at Malibu’s famed point is disappearing, and officials put in emergency rip-rap to try to stop waves from crumbling a wall next to the parking lot. To remedy the impacts of climate change on local beaches, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted to create
According to the California Regional Assessment National Shoreline Management Study in 2018, Southern California’s ocean economy in 2013 was valued at about $27 billion. L.A. County’s ocean-related tourism and recreation industries generated more than $2.2 billion in 2020. “Many residents and children in my district have never been to the beach,” said First District Supervisor Hilda Solis. “Everything we do to help preserve that shoreline and access for the public is of paramount importance.”The action asks the county to step up efforts with nonprofits, such as the Bay Foundation, which is working on a plan to use “living shorelines.
Mark Pestrella, director of L.A. County Public Works, said in an interview before the vote that replacing lost sand at beaches is not a new idea. But the action by the board is focused on how the county would move sediment dredged from flood control channels and dams onto affected beaches.
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