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City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Damns on the Santa Ynez River have greatly reduced the amount of sand on our beaches, and that's true for a lot of the California coast.
Supervisor Laura Capps to Host Isla Vista Housing and Safety Listening Session for Tenants and Students in Aftermath of Recent Bluff Fatality
ANON - suspending students for being on the bluffs? How does that work? There are parks along those cliffs. Ban students from those? I can see issuing tickets if students are caught climbing the fences, but that means cops have to be in the backyards of all those homes abutting the cliffs. Not sure how that would really be enforced.
Supervisor Laura Capps to Host Isla Vista Housing and Safety Listening Session for Tenants and Students in Aftermath of Recent Bluff Fatality
People climb over barriers. I'd like to see zero tolerance for students doing this. If you're in school and on the bluffs you should forfeit your semester. Not asking. Telling. Capps needs more action than window dressing
Santa Barbara City College Promise Rally Registered Almost 600 South Santa Barbara County School District Seniors
Agreed, CitizenSB. One of the top priorities should always be education. Allowing that to sit on the back burner only damages our society in the long run.
Santa Barbara City College Promise Rally Registered Almost 600 South Santa Barbara County School District Seniors
This is a great program. My only wish is for it to be funded with our tax money, why does it need to by funded by donations? Where are the states priorities?
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Past experience says it is not going to be sanitized sand, so where it comes from isn't that important as is trying to F with Ma Nature's plan by putting any thing on the beach. The tune "The Ocean" by Limp Blimp is a wise song from the past.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
The question to ask is what does this "beach nourishment" involve? Offshore dredging? Sediment from the Santa Monica debris basin? or? sacjon, with only $1.62M they won't be able to string a dredge line the 10 miles from SB to Carpinteria. with pump stations along the way. There might be an offshore sand deposit they are intending to use, but seeing the budget and without knowing the exact plan, I'm guessing Santa Monica debris basin is the source of the nourishment. That would make sense because that creek drainage was historically a major source of sediment replacement and it is sediment that would have wound up on that beach anyway.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
As I understand it, the sand dredged out of SB Harbor is released offshore and is carried by the longshore current to the beaches east of SB, just as it would have traveled if the harbor and breakwater weren't there to stop it in the first place. The sand dredged out of the harbor isn't necessarily "filthy", just from the harbor. New sand filters into the harbor every day, and it's dredged at least twice a year.
April Tree of the Month: African Wild Plum
These "plums" are always a treat. I've been eating them since I was a kid. Pro tip: Don't pick the ones that are already darkest in color. The plums should fall off the stems, into your hand. Peel the skin a bit and slip the fruit from its peel into your mouth. The darker they are the less fresh-tasting. The best ones are deep red (not purply red) and their sour taste is a real flavor sensation. They are about 80% pit, so just suck the fruit off the pit. ---------Do not eat the peel. --------- If you don't like sour taste --- do not eat.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
EDNEY - I was very opposed to the polluted dirt that was hastily transported and dumped on Goleta Beach, but this isn't the same thing. I wonder if they plan to use sediment dredged from SB harbor for this? Seems like a good idea if it doesn't affect what they currently use it for. I think there are many ways to make this a much cleaner and less contentious nourishment than they did with the toxic storm waste in Goleta. They have the luxury of time now to hopefully source any such materials more carefully.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
TNKY - Do you know where the nourishment sand is coming from?
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Sand in the Harbor bad. Filthy sand on beach good. Ok got it. Where do you think the sand is coming from?
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Another great reason to keep pushing for EVs. Imagine how much construction-related pollution we can reduce with electric construction vehicles. Volvo has a line of bulldozers and excavators and many other companies are joining the race.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Bulldozers for months. Heavy diesel fumes. It’s an experiment against Mother Nature. Those usually don’t work well.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
I like the project, but the people that objected to storm sediment being dumped in Carpinteria are going to freak out when they see what beach nourishment looks like
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Very forward thinking, I like it. We can't just bury our heads about climate change any longer.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
This will be an interesting experiment.
Op-Ed: Open Letter to the Santa Barbara City Council to Save the Hangars
The General Western hangars themselves aren’t significantly historic as simple structures, but the rich history they represent is what’s at stake here. Old hangars rarely remain, and generally have no real significant history. The SB hangars on the other hand created the airport that exists today, helped in the war effort and assisted in the growth of the UCSB university, just to name a few. The growth of the area and the economy can be attributed to to these two hangars as well. In their original location since 1931, in an un-used section of the airfield, they can once again serve the community and stand proud of their historical heritage.
City of Carpinteria Awarded $1.62 Million Grant for Living Shoreline Project
Will this money be used to stop rampant development of the Carp coastal green space and walking areas?
Spring is Here and Bikes are in Bloom with Countywide CycleMAYnia
15 years since I won the naming contest for this event (with some help from Lori La Riva and/or Ed France who suggested capitalizing MAY). So glad that it's still going strong.