[CPEO-MEF] REUSE; Long Beach, California breakwater

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Long Beach, feds agree on seawall alteration study

By Kristopher Hanson
Long Beach Press-Telegram (CA)
November 30, 2010 1

LONG BEACH - What began years ago as a fringe movement to alter or even 
tear down the Long Beach Breakwater is a step closer to reality 
following a formal agreement with the federal government.

The city, backed by dozens of the same activists who began the "Sink the 
Breakwater" campaign in the 1990s, signed an $8 million agreement with 
the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a four-year study on the 
impact of altering the 2.5-mile rock seawall.

The goal, as Army Corps of Engineers Col. Mark Toy said Tuesday, is to 
"restore much of the natural environment that existed in previous 
years," before the rock barrier blocked wave action and contributed to 
growing water pollution problems.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.presstelegram.com/ci_16747117

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
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