Overview

The City of Encinitas Coastal Zone Management program focuses on the protection and enhancement of the City’s coastline. The City realizes the importance of wide, sandy beaches to tourists and residents alike along with the economic value these beaches provide to the City. The City of Encinitas Coastal Zone Management Program currently studies three aspects of the City’s coastline to monitor and evaluate the state of this resource over time.

·          Coastal Habitat Survey Report 2003-05

San Elijo Lagoon Studies.

• I-5 Modeling Report PDF
• Beach Attendance Report (DRAFT)
• Feasibility Study and Conceptual Plan for the Relocation of the San Elijo Lagoon Inlet (PDF)
• Environmental Impact Statement/Report for the Encinitas Solana Beach Shoreline Protection and San Elijo Lagoon Restoration Project (PDF)
• Interstate 5 San Elijo Lagoon Advance Planning Studies Preliminary Design and Estimate (PDF)
• Interstate 5 Bridge at San Elijo Lagoon Sedimentation Study Report (PDF)
• Potential Mitigation Opportunities for the I-5 North Coast Project (PDF)
• San Elijo Lagoon and Escondido Watershed - Non-Point Source Pollution Management Plan (PDF)
• Escondido Creek Hydrologic Area - Project Report (PDF)
• Figure 5. San Elijo Lagoon: Exhibit 'A' Map of the location of the California South Railroad - February 1881 (PDF)

Coastal Habitat Studies:

• October 2003
• May 2004
• September 2004

Presentations:

• Beach Attendance SANDAG
  Headwater to Ocean (H20) (PowerPoint 22MB) 
• Beach Width Monitoring SANDAG
  Headwater to Ocean (H20) (PowerPoint 22MB) 
• Beach Attendance Project (PowerPoint 22MB)
• State of the Coast 2005 (PowerPoint 7MB)
• Congress Report 2007 (PowerPoint 23MB)
• Coastal Erosion Report (PDF 3MB)

Links

• SANDAG
• California Boating and Waterways

Program Contacts:

Katherine Weldon - kweldon@ci.encinitas.ca.us