Bolsa Chica Wetlands Maintenance Dredging Program

In order to maintain the restored wetlands at Bolsa Chica in Orange County, accumulated beach sand in the inlet of the Full Tidal Basin must periodically be removed and placed back onto the downcoast beach.  This maintenance action is part of the original restoration design and will need to be performed approximately every two years.  Maintaining an unobstructed passageway to the ocean is vital to the proper functioning of the tidal portions of the restoration area and of the normal processes of sand transport that maintain coastal beaches.

The first maintenance dredge activity is currently ongoing.  That work, beginning in the winter of 2009, will be completed by April 30, 2009.  More than 200,000 cubic meters of accumulated sand will be dredged and  placed on the nearby beach.

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06/03/09