Sloat Restoration through Managed Retreat

Sloat Restoration through Managed Retreat
This is our original vision for Sloat Restoration - graphic courtesy of PSA and Associates and the Ocean Beach Task Force

Our Vision of Beach Restoration and Preservation

The shorelines of Ocean Beach south of Sloat Blvd and Sharp Park in Pacifica are threatened by rip-rap seawallls and long-term erosion. This blog chronicles our campaign efforts to restore these beaches. Check out the web view of this site to see our proposed solutions and how to help- in the right hand column below. For all the latest about our efforts, see our monthly posts.

We advocate a managed retreat strategy to restore both Ocean Beach south of Sloat and Sharp Park.

At Sloat, our vision involves:

A long-term plan to relocate threatened infrastructure
(including the south of Sloat Great Highway, the two oceanside parking lots and the sewer lines underneath them).

The cleanup of all the rock and rubble littering the beach.

The use of sand dunes as the primary tool to slow erosion.

For Sharp Park, we advocate the decommissioning of the golf course, the removal of the rip-rap berm, and a full restoration of the wetland.

Sunday, October 5, 2014

October offshores grace the 2nd parking lot. (photo: B. McLaughlin)

Greetings Surfriders and Friends,

By all accounts, the two public meetings went well, though attendance was light.

The good news on the sand project is that the second parking lot will indeed be the focus of the new replenishment work.  Also, because of our advocacy efforts, general improvements for the parking lots are now high up on the list of near term priorities.

If you would like to submit your own comments on these and other issues, please do! The deadlne is October 15.  Below is a pasted email from SPUR with all the information.  Thanks!






OCEAN BEACH NEWS: SEPTEMBER 2014


Thanks to all of you who stopped by our open space design workshop at the United Irish Cultural Center this week (9/24)! For those who didn’t make it or who want to refresh your memory, you can view the presentation boards via the link to the blog post below. These boards present information on proposed open space designs at both the North Reach, across from Golden Gate Park between Lincoln Way and Balboa Street, and the South Reach, along the Great Highway from Sloat to Skyline Blvd. Please take a look at the boards and download the attached feedback form to submit your comments to us by October 15, 2014:
via email at oceanbeach@spur.org, or
via mail: Ben Grant, SPUR, 654 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94105.


​​Your feedback will be incorporated and presented an evening forum at SPUR (654 Mission) on October 27. Once again thank you all for your interest and participation!


Best regards,

Ben Grant and Shannon Fiala
SPUR OCEAN BEACH NEWS



Give Us Feedback on Open Space Design for Ocean Beach!





Thanks to all of you who stopped by our open space design workshop at the United Irish Cultural Center last night (9/24)! Please take a look at the boards posted (and attached) below and submit your feedback to us by October 15, 2014.

SPUR OCEAN BEACH EVENTS



Open Space Design at Ocean Beach


San Francisco


6:00 p.m. | Monday, October 27, 2014


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OTHER NEWS


Submit Comment on the Ocean Beach Sand Management Project


The Ocean Beach Sand Management Project will gather excess sand built up along the O’Shaughnessy Seawall and place this sand in the erosion hotspot south of Sloat Boulevard. To address the issues of excess sand and sand deficit at opposite ends of Ocean Beach, the National Park Service (NPS) in cooperation with the City’s two departments, the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission (SFPUC) and Department of Public Works (DPW) propose to transport approximately 30,000 cubic yards (cy) of sand from the overwidened backbeach area in front of the O’Shaughnessy Seawall to the erosion hot spot south of Sloat Boulevard to provide temporary shoreline stabilization and protection for the Lake Merced Transport Tunnel, which connects to a large wastewater treatment facility, as well as the Great Highway. Submit comment here by September 26, 2014.


SPUR

Ideas and action for a better city





654 Mission St.

San Francisco, CA 94105

415.781.8726

info@spur.org


76 South First Street

San Jose, CA 95113

408.638.0083

infosj@spur.org



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