Huge Victory for Waves at Sloat...

It's been my experience that rocks and waves often coexist.

true,
but hardening the beach changes the sand transport. Without any study, its hard to tell whether the waves will benefit or be hurt. Hardening also has the consequence of pushing the problem of erosion down the beach. Coastal erosion is inevitable.

All good points.

What happens to our brown sewer trouts if waves wash away the treatment plant? I don't like corn in the green room.

pic related from Willams And Sonoma:

The sewage treatment plant is probably 20 years of erosion away from being at risk. There is plenty of time to move. Also armoring the coast would not stop erosion entirely.

If I recall aright there is a 15'-17' poo transport pipe under the road which is a whole lot closer to the wave action than the treatment plant...

This is why I stopped $upporting Surfrider. Other chapters have done amazing things--like save trestles. But this chapter seems intent on fighting battles just because. Other chapters are busy fighting to keep poop out of the lineup. This one is fighting to put poop in the lineup. There is a gigantic sewer pipe under great highway that is threatened by erosion. Can someone please tell me why it's better to have poop in the lineup, the entire length of OB than have a few rocks at ######? Sheesh.

Surfrider's long-tern sustainable solution is "move the pipe" at a cost of millions upon millions. Do you honestly think in this economy they'll be able to come up with that kind of $$? They won't. So this will drag on and on--just as it already has--until the pipe is compromised and the poo starts pouring into the water. Nice work.

If Surfrider were actually interested in helping, they'd be raising funds to retrofit the dredging ship so that it could directly replenish the sand at cornholes (which btw would only cost about $1 million--a trifle compared to the cost of moving the pipe-that-will-never-be-moved.) That would both fix the immediate problem and provide sand nourishment-- aka sandbars-- for the rest of the beach. But it's way sexier to fight the DPW.

And the name is martian--as in from mars, where there's no poo and possibly no water. Yet I'm still an authority...

retro fitting the dredge ship would be great...
How bout you get that authorized by the present congress Martian/Sisyphus
We'll be raising money for your medical care post rock crush

On the other hand I completely agree that being against something is easy...
Being for a reasonable solution around here is a whole lot harder...
And I like reasonable solutions which is why the retrofit of the dredge ship seems like a nice middle path for the medium term..

But with projected sea rise et all it is also time to talk seriously about "managed retreat"

Doesn't the poop pipe run straight out of the plant to its terminus 2 miles offshore? That was always my understanding. I don't think it runs north-south along the Great Highway, does it?

LOVE the retrofit idea, though.

Actually the pipe that brings all the funk to the plant runs under the road... the outflow is a whole different deal (of course related)