Encinitas Coastal Erosion a Major Issue

Encinitas, CA
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Based in Encinitas, California, Matthew Gordon is an established San Diego County real estate executive who's projects have earned awards of merit and Gold Nugget from the West Coast Builders Association. At one time active on the Seacoast Preservation Association Board, Matthew Gordon informs the organization has a mission of ensuring that owners of Encinitas bluff-top properties are able to protect and preserve private property rights guaranteed to them under the California Coastal Act and the federal and state constitutions.

One current issue featured is Beacons Beach known as Leucadia State Park in Encinitas, California.

This beach reflects a natural process of coastal erosion that is impacted by rising sea levels, as well as a situation of drought preventing sand from being pushed down from rivers to replenish the beach. In addition, developments upstream are siphoning off natural sand flow, and swells and high tides work in combination to erode the coast. In August of 2019, the latter situation resulted in a collapse at Grandview Beach in Encinitas.
High Tides, lack of sand replenishment and bluff top construction vibrations are typical causes of failures. 

Local Bluff Top Homeowners explore revetments, berms, seawalls, and rocks as a buttressing solution. Unfortunately, the Coastal Commission is typically against these solutions, which they say can interfere with natural sand replenishment even though sand replenishment for the beaches from coastal bluffs account for only about 3% of the natural beach sand.

Bluff top homeowners own their land however the California Coastal Commission wants to tax homeowners who have revetments a sand tax for sand not eroding from their properties onto the shoreline.

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