locals, and they came to the beach to watch phase 2 of the sand replenishment project, which was formerly called the Encinitas-Solana Beach Coastal Storm Damage Reduction Project.
“The dredge goes down to that exact location and puts down essentially two suction hoses, and it just kind of drives almost like a vacuum along the ocean floor,” Todd Mierau, coastal zone program administrator, said. “The idea is to minimize the energy of waves coming towards the bluff face,” Mierau said. “If you widen your beach, the wave energy breaks sooner, and it slowly kind of dissipates towards the bluff face.”
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