Storm Damage Reduction Project

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United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) San Diego County, CA Project

Map of Beach
Map of Beach
Map of Beach

Last Updated: May 16, 2024

PROJECT STATUS

The US Army Corps of Engineers Storm Damage Reduction Project (federally known as the San Diego County, CA Project) is now complete as of May 9, 2024. The Encinitas phase of the project took approximately seven weeks to construct with another two weeks to demobilize the heavy equipment, pipeline, and staging area in and around the construction site. The total fill quantity placed was 346,939 cubic yards of sediment for the approximate mile-and-one-half reach, spanning just north of Swami’s and south of Beacon’s Beach.

For more information, please visit our webpage at https://www.encinitasca.gov/slr.

ABOUT THE PROJECT

The San Diego County, CA Project (as the project is now referred to) includes the periodic construction of protective beach berms along two segments of shoreline within San Diego County, California using sand from offshore borrow sites.

Segment 1 is located in Encinitas and extends approximately north of Swami’s to south of Beacons Beach for 7,800 feet.  Along this stretch of shoreline, a fifty-foot-wide protective beach berm will be constructed using approximately 340,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment. Renourishment of Segment 1 is scheduled to occur every five years with approximately 220,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment over a Federally approved 50-year period.

Segment 2 is located in Solana Beach, from Fletcher Cove to just north of the City of Del Mar limits for 7,800 feet.  Within Segment 2 a 150-foot-wide beach berm will be constructed using approximately 700,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment. Renourishment of Segment 2 is scheduled to occur every 10 years using approximately 290,000 cubic yards of compatible sediment, over a Federally approved 50-year period.

PROJECT BENEFITS

The project will provide important co-benefits to public health and life safety, low-cost recreation, and environmental enhancements to beach habitat.  The project includes protection of the public beach, public property and infrastructure, public access to and along the public beach, and improvements to no-cost public recreational uses immediately following project completion. The project will also provide environmental benefits by restoring and enhancing avian, fish and invertebrate species habitat, and will maintain existing coastal structures in place, thereby avoiding the need to construct new public infrastructure and amenities that could impact natural habitat.

Within the Encinitas project area, between Beacons State Beach and Moonlight State Beach, approximately 3,500,000 visitors were recorded in Fiscal Year 2022-2023. These City-operated State beaches will experience immediate benefits from implementation of the project. Public accessways to the beach, public parking lots, public restrooms, concessions and numerous other public amenities are located within the project area and will benefit from long-term beach sand replenishment.

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Completed beach at D-Street stairway looking north

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