Shore Patrol: Obama approves $90,000 for breakwater study

President Barack Obama has approved $90,000 to study changes in the Long Beach Breakwater that proponents contend could improve shoreline water quality.

[lbresident]

Fantastic. Bring back the beach!

[LongBeach_Who_Ca res]

so the federal wants to look into this.. Yes!!!
But what would the local do? maybe nothing...

[Observer]

Another waste of money on the breakwater! At the end of the day neither the City of LB or the State have any money to do anything even if the study finds there is some interest and value in doing something. Why do we keep chasing rainbows?

[lbresident]

Observer wrote:

Another waste of money on the breakwater! At the end of the day neither the City of LB or the State have any money to do anything even if the study finds there is some interest and value in doing something. Why do we keep chasing rainbows?

There is money in tidelands. The port can pay (particularly since they caused the water quality programs and now they want to expand). There are private grants as well. This is more real today than ever before and if we continue to make it a priority...it will happen. Great first step!

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lbresident wrote:

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There is money in tidelands. The port can pay (particularly since they caused the water quality programs and now they want to expand). There are private grants as well. This is more real today than ever before and if we continue to make it a priority...it will happen. Great first step!

Have you checked the City's finances including the port lately? You are talking potentially tens if not hundreds of millions. There are no private grants at that level nor is there government money.
Wake up!

[lbresident]

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Have you checked the City's finances including the port lately? You are talking potentially tens if not hundreds of millions. There are no private grants at that level nor is there government money.
Wake up!

It could be as low as $10M and probably not more than $50M. Yes the port traffic has declined. But it will come back and they want to spend billions on expansion. If they want to, they can give us some chump change for the inconvenience.

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lbresident wrote:

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It could be as low as $10M and probably not more than $50M. Yes the port traffic has declined. But it will come back and they want to spend billions on expansion. If they want to, they can give us some chump change for the inconvenience.

You obviously do not understand how government handles these things. The cost for the actual work will be $100 million or more. Your estimates are for the study to determine what will be done, not the doing!

[lbresident]

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You obviously do not understand how government handles these things. The cost for the actual work will be $100 million or more. Your estimates are for the study to determine what will be done, not the doing!

You are not correct. Read the study.