County Sand Projects Seek Funding

By Ed Joyce / Reporter, KPBS Public Broadcasting

Published November 6, 2008 at 3:10 AM PST

This story was published more than 15 years ago.

The city of Encinitas has approved an additional room tax to replenish sand on its beaches. Other beach projects in San Diego County could get state funding to do the same thing. KPBS Environmental Re

The city of Encinitas has approved an additional room tax to replenish sand on its beaches. Other beach projects in San Diego County could get state funding to do the same thing. KPBS Environmental Reporter Ed Joyce has details.

The San Diego Association of Governments or SANDAG is working on a regional sand project.

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It would mimic a 2001 pilot project and put sand on 12 beaches from Oceanside to Imperial Beach in 2010.

Steve Aceti with the California Coastal Coalition says research and monitoring from the pilot project will save time and money on the new project.

Aceti: And we can show that the sites that were chosen in 2001 are environmentally-safe and they didn't harm surf grass or lobster breeding grounds and that kind of thing.

He says that research will help speed the design and permitting process for the 2010 project.

Aceti says it's possible the SANDAG beach sand project will get $200,000 from the state.

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He says that money could be used to create artificial reefs as a way to keep sand on beaches longer.

Ed Joyce, KPBS News.

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Ed Joyce was the environment reporter and afternoon news anchor for KPBS-FM. Before joining KPBS, he worked as an editor/columnist with Copley News Service in San Diego. Ed has an extensive background in newspaper, radio, web and TV journalism. After graduating with a B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington in Seattle, Ed began a career in broadcast journalism. His work has included stints in public broadcasting, commercial broadcasting and education -- working as an affiliate professor of communication and reporter at the University of Idaho and Washington State University in Pullman, Wash. During the past 20 years he has worked in radio, TV and print as a news reporter, anchor, writer, editor and producer. Along the way he has won numerous awards for general news reporting, newswriting, feature and issue reporting and breaking news reporting from The Associated Press, The Society of Professional Journalists, San Diego Press Club and other organizations. During the mid-1990s, while working for Oregon Public Broadcasting, he was a frequent contributor to National Public Radio, including a feature report on the memorial service for 14 U.S. Forest Service "hotshots" who died fighting a wildfire in Colorado (the crew was based in a central Oregon town). He’s also filed reports with Marketplace, KQED’s California Report and Climate Watch and with national and regional networks throughout the United States. At KPBS, Ed continues his contributions to National Public Radio and other national and regional news organizations. He has won awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and San Diego Press Club for his environmental reporting at KPBS-FM-TV and for producing and anchoring radio newscasts. In 2007 he was selected a National Press Foundation fellow for Understanding Violent Weather II program. The seminars were held at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. In 2008 he spoke at a UC San Diego conference on U.S. National Security as part of the school’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation. Ed led a discussion with the 18 foreign government officials and academics about the political debate over climate change. In 2010, Ed was elected to a three-year term on the board of the San Diego Press Club.

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