The city is paying $100,000 and waiting a full year for a study that could lead to big changes in the breakwater and transform Long Beach. But The District Weekly’s study is done now

PHOTO COURTESY KEN LARKEY, CURATOR OF THE LONG BEACH HERITAGE MUSEUM
WAITING FOR THE SHIP TO COME IN
Twelve pages have been [...]

Back to where we started…
Happy New Year! Here’s your recap:
In 2005, the city of Long Beach asked for a $100,000 federal appropriation to fund a reconnaissance study that would determine the cost-effectiveness of reconfiguring the Long Beach Breakwater — that two-mile wall of boulders capping the city’s coast and retaining swirley toilet water courtesy of [...]

The Breakwater Forum
Fourth District City Councilman Patrick O’Donnell interrupted his partying at the Surfrider Foundation’s Breakwater Bash on Thursday night just long enough to announce his own breakwater event.
The Breakwater Forum—probably a little less fun but a lot more informational—will be held Saturday, Dec. 1 at the Aquarium of the Pacific’s Honda Theater. It’s free [...]

Army Corp sends parameters for Recon Study, Coastal Conservancy may be sending money
The parameters for the Long Beach Breakwater Reconnaissance Study have arrived, and the list of federal regulations sent by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers amounts to a job description for a job that’s never been described before.”
Army Corps staff informs us that [...]