Marin awarded nearly $6M for coastal projects
The California State Coastal Conservancy is investing nearly $6 million in the restoration and management of Marin County shorelines. The allocation is part of a larger statewide distribution of more than $113 million approved last month to protect the coast from the effects of climate change. In Marin, a $1.4 million grant is going to Tiburon to fund the final phase of restoration at Greenwood Beach and Brunini Beach at Blackie’s Pasture. “Blackie’s Pasture is a much-loved and used historical public park that has a highly eroded shoreline, typical of many locations around SF Bay,” said David Eshoo, engineering manager for the town. “This grant will pay for 100% of the construction costs including post-construction monitoring for three years.” … At current rates of sea-level rise, the shoreline and marsh will likely erode and expose additional asphalt and concrete rubble, leaving only a steeper, narrower, rocky shoreline with little or no high tide space by mid-century, Eshoo said.