Residents and officials fear more bluff erosion in Del Mar could damage a key rail line. About $10 million in repairs and construction will start in February.
Even as quakes, wildfires and drought have taken up most of our focus, the slow-moving disaster of rising seas has paralyzed Californians, and left us with “both too much and not enough time” to act, as environment reporter Rosanna Xia wrote in a special report examining sea level rise and the future of California’s disappearing coastline.
more than $6.1 million in funding to help stabilize the crumbling cliffs. She has pledged to keep such cash infusions coming for at least four more years. “What I’m not excited about is seeing what’s going to have to take place on the bluff to stabilize it,” she added. “That’s not easy to watch, but we don’t have a choice. This is critical to our region.”SANDAG has poured more than $15 million into stabilizing the Del Mar bluffs over the last two decades. The last major effort was in 2011 when the agency spent roughly $5 million largely to install support piles.
Concrete collection basins and culverts along the bluffs capture rainwater and funnel it out to sea before it can eat away at the cliffs from the top. However, pipes can become clogged during rainstorms, such as during the Thanksgiving collapse.
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