Palos Verdes Reef Restoration Project Update

On Tuesday, Staff learned that work is scheduled to resume on the Palos Verdes Reef Restoration Project on August 27. According to California Coastal Commission staff, the barge that appeared off the coast near Trump National Golf Club in May is expected to return by the middle of next week to complete the remaining half of the reef.
 
Construction will take place six days a week (Monday-Saturday, excluding Labor Day) for approximately 11 hours each day. The remaining work is expected to take approximately three weeks and wrap by the end of September.
 
As a reminder, this project by the Southern California Marine Institute involves dropping tens of thousands of tons of quarry rock into the ocean to build 18 reef modules on the seafloor to restore fishing resources destroyed by decades of chemical dumping off the coast.
 
The Vantuna Research Group at Occidental College is documenting the project on its website and Twitter.

Anyone with questions or concerns about the project can contact Cassidy Teufel at the Coastal Commission at Cassidy.Teufel@coastal.ca.gov. Staff will continue to monitor this project.