The California Coastal Commission has approved a project to build a more than 3,000-foot-long buried seawall along the southern portion of Ocean Beach in San Francisco.
Headed by San Francisco 's Public Utilities Commission , the project looks to protect a massive underground sewage tunnel and a nearby wastewater plant from beach erosion.Anna Roche with SFPUC told the commission, without the seawall the tunnel could be severely damaged.'As you can see from these two photos it's large enough to drive a truck through,' Roche said. 'If this tunnel were to fail it would result in a major emergency for this side of San Francisco .
The group argues that the city should look to do that now rather than later.They also said a sea wall adds to beach erosion by pushing waves back out onto the beach.'We feel like we're going to lose this beach. South Ocean Beach is such a special place and most of California, 75% of California's beaches by 2100 are going to be eroded. So, it's a huge issue and the more sea walls that get permitted, the more sea walls are going to get permitted in the future,' said Atkind.
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