On Friday, the city of Oceanside will be meeting at Buccaneer Beach to discuss the potential impact on the city’s coastline if, as predicted, the sea level rises in coming decades. The state has asked cities to come up with plans to deal with rising sea levels when (or if) they occur. Thus, Oceanside is revising its Local Coastal Program for the first time since 1987.
The city will holding informal discussions along the cost during “King Tides”† forecast for this weekend and next month. Here is what the city announced last month:
The next series of king tides will occur between January 10-12 and February 8-9. The project team invites you to meet us on the beachfront in January and February to observe the king tides and discuss what king tide events suggest about the potential impacts of future sea level rise. We will be at Buccaneer Beach on Friday, January 10th at 8:00am and at the public parking lot at Wisconsin Street and The Strand on Sunday, February 9th at 8:30am. During these gatherings, we welcome your input on those stretches of our coastline most impacted by tidal and storm events, as well as any changes you have witnessed on the beachfront over the past several years. Please join us!
Although it is a work day for many people, we hope to see Save South O supporters at Buccaneer on Friday.
† The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says “A King Tide is a non-scientific term people often use to describe exceptionally high tides.”
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