On Thursday, the California Coastal Commission will vote on the approval of a $175 million climate-related project that would transform the southern portion of San Francisco’s Ocean Beach. … Created by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and other agencies, the plan includes a 3,200-foot-long buried seawall designed to protect a sewage tunnel and wastewater treatment plant located along the coast south of Sloat Boulevard. The 14-foot diameter Lake Merced Tunnel is used to store combined stormwater and wastewater during big storms when the plant is at capacity. It’s particularly vulnerable because that part of the beach is projected to erode by more than 100 feet between now and 2100 because of sea level rise and larger storms that come with climate change, according to a recent study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

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