Emergency Dredging Operations Scheduled for Santa Barbara Waterfront
By the City of Santa Barbara, Waterfront Department
POST STORM UPDATE: The harbor entrance remains extremely impacted & hazardous to navigate. The Waterfront Dept is working with the Army Corps of Engineers on scheduling emergency dredging operations ASAP.
An Army Corps vessel is conducting a survey of the Federal Channel and other impacted areas. Cleanup efforts are wrapping up in the harbor, parking lots, and surrounding areas.
The Yacht Club all Waterfront businesses are back to business as usual.
The Waterfront Dept is working under an emergency repair permit with CA Coastal Commission to install rock revetment between the yacht club parking lot & Harbor West parking lot to protect against further erosion and property damage. This work will take about 2-weeks.
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Jan 13, 2023 06:35 AMWhat I have always thought they should do is extend the breakwater from where it starts, going west, in front of the yacht club. Unless I misread the plan, this revetment might help the parking lot but won’t do much, if anything, for the building. (Not that it’s in a great spot for weathering such storms.)
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Jan 12, 2023 05:28 PMWhy not use the same effect of the SB breakwater on sand bar formation up at Goleta beach? There's a small but natural point at the west end of the parking lot where a breakwater of sorts can be made with boulders and the same sand collection will occur. Provided it's pointed in the right direction.
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Jan 12, 2023 07:04 PMI’ve always wondered if the modern Goleta Beach erosion is due to the removal of the pilings at “Poles”. Seems like those pilings would have slowed the current, allowing sediment to deposit.
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Jan 12, 2023 02:07 PMSo also, the stuff that’s being trucked from Cito out to Goleta Beach will be headed down into the harbor to be dredged. I think it’s called down shore drift. Aka (in this case) - desperate attempts to save GoletaBeach, and a nice misuse of taxpayer dollars.
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Jan 12, 2023 01:44 PMThey usually run a giant pipe down past the wharf and it dumps out about 1/4 mile east of there, between Palm park and East beach.
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Jan 12, 2023 01:46 PMYeah, but is there too much this year? It's pretty fascinating to watch those dredges in action!
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Jan 12, 2023 01:36 PMWhere does all the dredged sediment go?
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Jan 12, 2023 03:56 PMThis is between dredging periods and the pipe along east beach has to be removed until there is a new contract. The sand that will be removed, maybe starting tomorrow, on an emergency basis will be pumped to West Beach. So said Waterfront Director Mike Wiltshire today's Council meeting. He also described all the work that was done --- and there was an amazing amount of work that had to be done in a short period of time.
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Jan 12, 2023 02:58 PMWatch the video SACJON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqT1g2riQ30
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Jan 12, 2023 01:56 PMit disperses by East beach, graveyards and Butterfly beaches. excellent time for sea glass hunting too....