Surfrider Foundation regional manager Sarah Damrom, whose organization fought unsuccessfully to stop the county seawall, reluctantly said she would not oppose O’Neill’s plans. “We don’t support armoring the coast there. However fighting things piecemeal doesn’t seem like it’s going to solve the problem,” she said.
Wells is the project superintendent of the $6.2 million Pleasure Point seawall project, now taking form between Pleasure Point and 36th Avenue. After he arrived in Santa Cruz from Discovery Bay in April, it didn’t take Wells long to realize how important and delicate this project is to the surf community.
PLEASURE POINT — Construction of what will be the largest seawall in Santa Cruz County will begin next month, setting in motion nearly a year of major engineering work, heavy-machinery use and road closures along a popular stretch of East Cliff Drive.
For decades, the ocean has slowly devoured East Cliff Drive along the Pleasure Point neighborhood. At times, the world-renowned surfing waves merely nibble at the crumbling bluffs beneath the road and the popular pedestrian corridor. At other times, storm swell takes ravenous bites out of the Purisima sandstone, and chunks of pavement suddenly collapse.
The California Coastal Commission last week signed off on the county’s plan to build one of the largest, and perhaps most decorative, seawalls on the Monterey Bay
The California Coastal Commission (CCC) staff has recommended approval of the above project conditional upon their recommendations as can be found on page 11 of their staff report.
PLEASURE POINT “” The cliffs are falling into the ocean, and county supervisors agreed Tuesday to move ahead with a 1,100-foot seawall along scenic East Cliff Drive to save the bluffs from further slides.
The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors will be holding a Public Hearing on Tuesday, 3/20/07 at 9:00 AM at the Board of Supervisors Chambers, Fifth Floor, 701 Ocean Street, Santa Cruz, for the Development Permit and Certification of the Project EIR for the East Cliff Drive Bluff Protection & Parkway Project
PLEASURE POINT “” Plans are resurfacing for an 1,100-foot seawall to protect the cliffs, homes and a pedestrian pathway in Pleasure Point. And this time, the plan is backed by research claiming the seawall won’t threaten the area’s famed surf breaks.
Erosion at Pleasure Point has the county looking at coastal armoring””again””to the dismay of local surfers