Phase 2 of the “Malibu Lagoon Restoration and Enhancement Plan, ” calling for a complete excavation of most plants, animals, and marshland is set to begin this summer. But members of Wetlands Defense Fund and Save Malibu Lagoon, who have launched a campaign to stop it and testified against it in hearings over the past month, are stepping up their campaign to raise money to pay legal bills so they can fight it in court.
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Photo by RUNMAN
Matt Rapf rides the perfect wave at Third Point in 1981 before the lagoon restoration of 1983. The wave no longer breaks like this. While the “State Plan experts" supporting the current reconstruction plan will tell you it had no affect on the wave, the surfers who have called this wave home for decades will tell you otherwise. And they know better.
FACTS
State Parks “Restoration and Enhancement Plan” rendering presents an aerial view of Malibu Lagoon showing the lagoon following completion of the plan approved by the California Coastal Commission.
Bulldozing is set to begin in June to contour and reshape the west side of the lagoon.
go to site to HELP. or contact me through comments to find out how to help.
Opponents say they fear this plan not only may destroy the Third Point wave, but will create a peninsula of homes that will be vulnerable during the next 25-, 50-, or 100-year storm when rushing currents carry a tremendous amount of sediment and earth out to sea.
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Phase 2 of the “Malibu Lagoon Restoration and Enhancement Plan, ” calling for a complete excavation of most plants, animals, and marshland is set to begin this summer. But members of Wetlands Defense Fund and Save Malibu Lagoon, who have launched a campaign to stop it and testified against it in hearings over the past month, are stepping up their campaign to raise money to pay legal bills so they can fight it in court.
more
Photo by RUNMAN
Matt Rapf rides the perfect wave at Third Point in 1981 before the lagoon restoration of 1983. The wave no longer breaks like this. While the “State Plan experts" supporting the current reconstruction plan will tell you it had no affect on the wave, the surfers who have called this wave home for decades will tell you otherwise. And they know better.
FACTS
State Parks “Restoration and Enhancement Plan” rendering presents an aerial view of Malibu Lagoon showing the lagoon following completion of the plan approved by the California Coastal Commission.
Bulldozing is set to begin in June to contour and reshape the west side of the lagoon.
go to site to HELP. or contact me through comments to find out how to help.
Opponents say they fear this plan not only may destroy the Third Point wave, but will create a peninsula of homes that will be vulnerable during the next 25-, 50-, or 100-year storm when rushing currents carry a tremendous amount of sediment and earth out to sea.
ACT
