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TheMastersNemesis

(10,602 posts) Fri Oct 13, 2017, 11:30 PM Oct 2017

Large Part Of Oceanside, CA Beach Gone 300 Yards South Of OC Pier. [View all]

It was astounding to see the beach sand and beach gone south of the Oceanside pier. As late as the early 2000's you could walk from the Oceanside pier to the desalination plant on sand beaches. Today noticed that about 300 yards south of that pier that the beach turned to pebbles with NO sand. Another couple hundred yards and THERE WAS NO BEACH. The ocean was at the road with houses no more the 20 feet from the see where there had been at least 50 yards of beach sand 6 or 8 feet high in the past. It looked like all the beach was gone all the way down to the desalinization plant which could be a mile further down. There seems to be no way o restore that part of their former wide beaches.

Now there are numerous and very expensive home literally yards from the ocean now. The only thing protecting them are rock walls. The effects of global warming certainly show here as far as I am concerned.

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Large Part Of Oceanside, CA Beach Gone 300 Yards South Of OC Pier. [View all] TheMastersNemesis Oct 2017 OP

oceanside beach used to turn from sand to mostly stones in the winter nt msongs Oct 2017 #1

Somehow This Situation Seems Different. TheMastersNemesis Oct 2017 #2

I recall Carlsbad beaches having issues rufus dog Oct 2017 #3

The sand, like the stones are washed down river and stream beds. denbot Oct 2017 #4

Lotta memories donco Oct 2017 #5

I was at Pendleton in the 80's. Chellee Oct 2017 #8

It's a dredging issue Sen. Walter Sobchak Oct 2017 #6

That's not always from climate change, per se but it is due to human activity misanthrope Oct 2017 #7

We have a similar problem here in the Hamptons, caused by groins and jetties... TreasonousBastard Oct 2017 #9