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| This protective berm threatens the beach at Sharp Park. |
Greetings Surfriders and Friends,
While we await new developments at Sloat, we thought this would be a good time to check in on the effort to restore Sharp Park.
To recap, the campaign at Sharp Park involves a seawall like structure located on the beach in Pacifica. See photo above. The rock and dirt berm protects a golf course from flooding when high surf washes ashore.
Just like at Sloat, the beach at Sharp Park is gradually eroding. This means either the berm is removed or the beach will eventually become submerged. Much of Pacifica's beaches are already lost due to seawalls and rock revetments.
During February's lone winter storm, the golf course experienced major flooding. This comes on the heels of zero inches of rainfall in January. Clearly, the City is fighting an uphill battle in trying to safeguard a golf course on this land. Surfrider continues to support the proposal to abandon golf at Sharp Park and to bring this property into the GGNRA system. By restoring the wetland system, we can remove the seawall and best preserve the beach.
Wild Equity is running a new letter writing campaign to SF Mayor Ed Lee. Please ask him to remove the berm and to restore the Sharp Park wetland and beach. Here's the link http://wildequity.org/alerts/257
One last thing... Over a year ago, golf course management attempted to reinforce the seawall with more rock - all under the banner of "maintenance." As we reported in a prior post, the appropriate authorities were alerted, which stopped the work from completion. To finish the project legally, SF Rec. and Park was supposed to file for a permit/or permit exemption by last July. The deadline past without a submission. We will continue to monitor the situation.
Thanks for checking in!
