LAist: On a recent morning, traffic sped by the Annenberg Community Beach House in Santa Monica where San Vicente and Ocean boulevards meet. A few hundred yards away, the waves crashed on the shore. But 100 years ago, when Hollywood starlet Marion Davies lived in this once-rural spot of coast, standing this close to the house would… Continue reading Santa Monica’s sand dunes are mounting a low-tech resistance to rising sea levels
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Santa Monica Expands Nature Based Dune Work Along City Shoreline
SANTA MONICA/VENICE – Santa Monica is expanding its beach-dune restoration project from the Pier toward the Venice border—an effort the City says will add nearly 30 additional acres of restored dunes intended to buffer erosion and flooding as sea levels rise. The City of Santa Monica said Thursday, Feb. 26, that Phase III of the… Continue reading Santa Monica Expands Nature Based Dune Work Along City Shoreline