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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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