GOLETA BEACH PARK CLOSED DUE TO LOCAL STORM EMERGENCY

The after effect of dumping muck at Goleta is it gets carried out on the high tide, travels south with the currents, and redeposits onto beaches further south during future high tides. Carpinteria State Beach to RIncon still have lumber from the last big dump a few years ago. Thanks, Goleta.

I wish edhat gave us the option to delete a posting or additional postings like GOLETIAN did here. I think we all have done the multi-posts at one time or another. I'd just like to be able to get rid of the extras.

Everytime Montecito dumps their trash on our beach the fishing goes to hell. The UCSB study earlier this year spelled that out clearly. The study also concluded that the city dumped too fine of sediment which made it very unlikely the invertebrates could burrow into the sand, meaning they're doubled effed. Wish Montecito would just dump their trash in a landfill, at the very least dump it on Butterfly if it's so "nourishing"

Chip - Very little sand comes around Pt. Conception to the South Coast. One study even shows that very little sand makes it around Pt. Arguello to Jalama Beach. So the Santa Ynez River dams are not stopping sand from gracing our beaches.

Beaches are formed by the debris that flows out of rivers. Sail posted a link to a great video in a recent discussion about this. The sand and other materials flows south along the beach and essentially drains off into the deep ocean. The Bradbury dam and all the debris basins in our area have cut off vital sources of the material that forms our beaches. Dumping the debris that was on its way to the beach and intercepted by our dams/debris basins seems like a win-win for the beach and for emptying the debris basins. It might be worth giving some consideration to how we could make up for all the sediment captured in lake cachuma that would have otherwise flowed out to the beach. The Bradbury dam dam a depriving our beaches of a lot of material they would otherwise receive.

Shutting down access to the Goleta Beach County Park is a great idea and will keep lookie-loos (like me) away. The faster the project is completed, the sooner we can all enjoy the beach/pier there. Replenishing this stretch of the coastline will ensure the whole ecosystem is properly working and maintained. Each successive sand bar and beach all the way down the line will benefit greatly. I will admit that for some people this is an inconvenience, but in the long run, the right thing to do.

The County has decided Goleta Beach Park is the dumping ground and it’s time to dump. We taxpayers (that’s all of us) may even be paying for ‘Montecito McElroy’ to have his tribe’$ boulders to be dumped there. That is, unless he cuts a nice deal to have us pay first and then gets to re-sell those suckers for top dollar in the Cito for poorly-paid laborers to make walls and such. I know I sound cynical but think about it…IF you have skin in the game. Otherwise don’t bother to comment.

"....emergency beach nourishment operations." That sounds like a six-pack. I think they really mean dumping a zillion truckloads of all the muck from the creeks and whatnot.