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California's San Dieguito Lagoon Gets an $86 Million Facelift

Posted Sep 03, 2006 at 06:07PM by Alaric S. Listed in: Natural Resources Tags: ecosystem, wetlands
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san diegutoFinally, the $86 million restoration of the San Dieguito Lagoon at Del Mar, California will begin this month after 15 years of planning, ironing out legal kinks, and bureaucracy.


The restoration will cover 440 acres and will permanently unplug the lagoon's outlet to the ocean that has been blocked by a wide berm of sand. With the lagoon's clogged mouth, algal bloom is spreading across the backwaters and could cause fish die-off.

The wetlands restoration project will also create new marshes, mud flats, and underwater habitats which had been filled in for tomato fields and an airfield.

Installing permanent tidal flushing and man-made basins in the San Dieguito Lagoon is expected to produce a thriving ecosystem for fish and endangered birds. The $86 million restoration will begin after the end of the current nesting season of endangered birds such as the snowy plover. It will take two to three years of digging to complete but all work will cease during nesting seasons. The construction will be closely monitored by scientists specializing in birds, plants, geology, archeology, and paleontology.

Lagoons are bodies of shallow salt water separated from sea by shallow or exposed sandbank, coral reefs, or similar features. Lagoons are important because many species of plants and wildlife feed and breed nowhere else. Lagoon systems are known to be habitats of up to  2,200 species, many of them listed as threatened or endangered.

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