Chumash Village
pre lagoon illustration
Long time resident says...
This is not just about The Perfect Wave. For the sake of the lagoon, the beach and the waves, we need to determine how breaching the lagoon can best maintain the coastline. Bulldozers play no part in that. Everything works together.
Based on years of experience I know that with the right weather it can be possible for good waves to break almost all year long. But only if the lagoon is maintained in as natural a state as possible so that when it gets too full, it breaches.
When the lagoon breaches, all kinds of accumulated sediment and rocks wash down from the hills out into the ocean. All this material then settles into the cracks and along the rocks and crevices just offshore and it smoothes out the ocean bottom. This pushes Third Point out deeper into the ocean and it creates a longer, smoother wave. If the waves were flatter before, they get higher and better when this happens. And once the over-full lagoon breaches, the waves are great for quite a while because the ocean has a whole new bottom. READ ON
1) The Malibu project is not a “Restoration” project at all.
“Restoration” is defined as “The return of something to a former owner, place or condition.”
A picture taken around 1930 (and possibly prior) shows that the Malibu Creek led directly to the ocean. According to Professor Emeritus Hartmut S. Walter’s testimony, it was an “estuary” which fluctuated, just like the ebb and tide of the ocean, and not a “lagoon” with restricted water circulation. Sometime thereafter, ball fields existed directly adjacent to Malibu Creek. In 1983, State Parks dug up the ball fields and created a “Malibu Lagoon.” To restore the creek, one would allow Mother Nature to take its natural course, and not provide man-made barriers which restrict the natural flow of water
http://malibu.patch.com/articles/reconsider-the-lagoon-project-mr-governor
4/21/11
This is not just about The Perfect Wave...
Chumash Village
pre lagoon illustration
Long time resident says...
This is not just about The Perfect Wave. For the sake of the lagoon, the beach and the waves, we need to determine how breaching the lagoon can best maintain the coastline. Bulldozers play no part in that. Everything works together.
Based on years of experience I know that with the right weather it can be possible for good waves to break almost all year long. But only if the lagoon is maintained in as natural a state as possible so that when it gets too full, it breaches.
When the lagoon breaches, all kinds of accumulated sediment and rocks wash down from the hills out into the ocean. All this material then settles into the cracks and along the rocks and crevices just offshore and it smoothes out the ocean bottom. This pushes Third Point out deeper into the ocean and it creates a longer, smoother wave. If the waves were flatter before, they get higher and better when this happens. And once the over-full lagoon breaches, the waves are great for quite a while because the ocean has a whole new bottom. READ ON
1) The Malibu project is not a “Restoration” project at all.
“Restoration” is defined as “The return of something to a former owner, place or condition.”
A picture taken around 1930 (and possibly prior) shows that the Malibu Creek led directly to the ocean. According to Professor Emeritus Hartmut S. Walter’s testimony, it was an “estuary” which fluctuated, just like the ebb and tide of the ocean, and not a “lagoon” with restricted water circulation. Sometime thereafter, ball fields existed directly adjacent to Malibu Creek. In 1983, State Parks dug up the ball fields and created a “Malibu Lagoon.” To restore the creek, one would allow Mother Nature to take its natural course, and not provide man-made barriers which restrict the natural flow of water
http://malibu.patch.com/articles/reconsider-the-lagoon-project-mr-governor
