Sunset Cliffs Park is comprised of two sections, a "Linear Section" and a "Hillside Section". The "Linear Section" consisting of the west cliffs edge side of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard, from Adair Street to the corner of Ladera Street and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The cliff edge to the guard rail on the west side of Sunset Cliffs Blvd. The "Hillside Section" Consists of 50 acres south of Ladera Street, west of Point Loma Nazarene University, and north of the U.S. Navy Land.

The "Save Sunset Cliffs Master Plan" for both the "Linear" and "Hillside" sections of the park is to stop the erosion. With the new " Comprehensive Storm Drain System" the park will stop eroding and we can start to address a few specific issues that need to be addressed within the park. They are as follows:

  1. Sunset Cliffs Surf Culture: The Culture of Sunset Cliffs is our greatest asset and we need to preserve it at all costs. Any future development of the Sunset Cliffs Park will only be to preserve the culture and history of the cliffs and the famlies that have made them what they are. The benches and other memorials that are placed in Sunset Cliffs Park will not be removed by the city. The Sunset Cliffs community will govern what memorials stay and go in the park. There will be no new accesses built to base of the cliff or beaches in Sunset Cliffs Park. The beach accesses will be maintained in their current locations and maintained in their natural native state. The new " Comprehensive Storm Drain System" will stop the storms from damaging the trails during the winter, and allow them to be up-kept much more easily.

  2. Trails System: The access to the Sunset Cliffs Coastal Trail will be limited due to danger at the cliff edge. The guardrail will be replaced from Adair Street, to Ladera Street, and all of the current access points,( sections newly removed from rail on coastal cliff) be closed to prevent foot traffic on the cliffs edge.

  3. Parking Lots and Parking Meters: The Parking Lots will be repaired and maintained in their exact configuration. The Parking Lots will be curbed and a drain installed to stop any erosion. These Parking Lots are a huge park of the Surfing culture of Sunset Cliffs Park. It is in these Parking Lots that generations of Surfers have come to gather, and these Lots themselves are very famous in the history of surfing not only to San Diego Surfers but to Surfers all around the world. Also there will be no parking meters along the cliffs.

     
  4. Leave the Houses in the Park:

  5. Replace Signage in the Park:

  6. No permanent Restrooms in the Park.

  7. No Park Ranger in the Park.

  8. Re-Vegetation will be drought tolerant.

 

With a new " Comprehensive Storm Drain System" the erosion of Sunset Cliffs and the undermining of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard will be stopped and the preservation of the boulevard will no longer be like "fighting a ragging river". With the erosion stopped the locations were the boulevard has been undermined can be repaired in order to preserve the boulevard in its current location. These locations of serious undermining of the boulevard and the corresponding repairs are as follows:

  1. Hill Street; Where Hill Street meets the cliffs edge of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. This location extends from Hill Street to the entrance of "No Surf Beach". This Hill Street location is in need of immediate repair. This location repair consists of a "tie-Back" repair that bolts back a small selective piece of natural colored stuccoed wire mesh to the cliff. 

          
     
  2. Rockslides; South of Monaco Street 200 feet where Sunset Cliffs Boulevard Bends. This Rockslides location repair need to have the rip-rap secured with colored cement mastic and a small tie back to maintain the integrity of the boulevard.

         
     
  3. The Clairbourne's Cove location due to uncontrolled surface water run off, has caused a serious point of erosion that is jeopardizing the boulevard. A Storm drain that controls the surface water run off will stop the retreat of this point of erosion and will allow the cliff to dry out and save this point of the boulevard from elimination and closure. Also this area needs the rip-rap to be configured to create an opening in the center of the rip-rap wall and then anchor the rip-rap with a natural colored cement mastic. With the new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" this location will not suffer the erosion that is currently occurring, and will allow Clairbourne's Cove to once again flush naturally.

The new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" will consists of two separate systems with two separate rainwater outfall pipes into the ocean. Each of the systems will include a state-of-the-art pollution system that will allow for the toxic pollutants to be collected in holding tanks and trickled into the sewer system for treatment. The non-polluted runoff water will be piped five hundred feet off shore into the sub-tidal zone. Any work on or near the cliff will use micro-tunneling technology due to the extreme fragile nature of the cliff composition and condition. The serious erosion that is occurring at Sunset Cliffs Park is called "Top-Down Block Erosion" It is caused by the cliff edge becoming saturated and then collapsing in block sections. At Sunset Cliffs Park this is happening in the locations were the streets that come down the hill of Point Loma, intersect Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The erosion is being caused by the inability for the current storm drain ( which is only the curb), to control the velocity and the volume of the rainwater runoff. The rain/storm water runoff that Sunset Cliffs park experiences is at a much larger volume and velocity than the current system can control. The result is water flowing uncontrolled to the cliffs edge where it is saturating the Cliffs and causing the catastrophic "Top-Down Block Erosion" &  "Slope Erosion"  that we have been experiencing at Sunset Cliffs for decades.

Top -Down Erosion at Sunset Cliffs          Uncontrolled Surface Water Run-off Erosion                    Top Down Erosion at Sunset Cliffs- Erosion Caused by Uncontrolled Surface Water Run-off

 The new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" will be located in the public right of way alley east of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. It will intersect each of the Streets that come down the hill of Point Loma with a storm drain grate across the street at the point were each street intersects the alley of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. This Storm Drain Grate will flow the runoff directly into the new storm drain pipe and will collect the upslope rainwater runoff before the runoff is able to reach the cliffs edge and cause the catastrophic erosion that is occurring at this point.

The First system of the new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" includes the streets that run upslope of Point Loma Avenue to Guizot St. These These streets and avenue will be fit with a storm drain grate were they intersect the alley east of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. This storm drain grate will flow into the new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" were the polluted water will be removed and the clean water will flow into the ocean thru a micro- tunneled outfall pipe.

The new storm drain pipe connects to a pollutant removal holding tank system, which will allow for first flow pollutants to be removed and trickled into our sewer system for treatment ( similar to La Jolla ). The second flow and cleaner water will then flow thru the micro-tunneled outfall pipes that exits 500 feet off shore at the cliffs base. This first systems outfall pipe will be located at "Caldwell's Creek" cove, into the sub-tidal zone.

 Sunset Cliffs Park is eroding at an unbelievable rate. At this point, the erosion in Sunset Cliffs Park is at an emergency status. In the next couple of years the erosion at Sunset Cliffs will reach crisis levels, and very similar to the coastlines in other Southern California coastal locations. Many Southern California coastal locations are experiencing catastrophic home and coastal useable land loss. Sunset Cliffs park is at emergency land loss status and Sunset Cliffs Boulevard is in serious jeopardy of being lost if the current rate of erosion isn't addressed immediately. If the erosion isn't addressed immediately there will be serious crisis conditions with the coastal parkland and boulevard loss along with crisis status of home and life loss along Sunset Cliffs.  The Current need for a new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" could not be underestimated. 

"Top-Down Erosion" and "Slope Erosion: Top-down Block Erosion is caused by the cliff edge becoming saturated with water and then the weight of the excess water creating a collapsing the cliff in large block sections.  The Top-down Slope Erosion is caused by water running down the hillside to the cliffs edge during rainstorms and creating cut out gullies of erosion that continue to cause the cliff edge to recede and undermine the boulevard.

 

                Surface Slope Erosion at No Surf Beach      

Top Down Block Erosion and Top Down Slope Erosion at Sunset Cliffs.

At Sunset Cliffs Park erosion is happening in the locations were the streets that come down the hillside of Point Loma, intersect Sunset Cliffs Boulevard. The erosion is being caused by the inability for the current storm drain (which is only the curb), to control the velocity and the volume of the rainwater runoff. The rain/storm water runoff that Sunset Cliffs park experiences is at a much larger volume and velocity than the current system can control. The result is water flowing uncontrolled to the cliffs edge where it is saturating the Cliffs and causing the catastrophic "Top-Down Block Erosion" that we have been experiencing at Sunset Cliffs for decades. Again The Urgent need for a new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" could not be underestimated. 

Top Down Block Erosion:

  Top Down Block Erosion

It is "Pay to Play" Politicians that have got their hands in our park. Join Save Sunset Cliffs and help keep the City from destroying our last piece of native parkland, and push to get a state of the art storm drain system to save our park and boulevard.

Save Sunset Cliffs Master Plan:
Sunset Cliffs park is eroding at an unbelievable rate. At this point, the erosion in Sunset Cliffs Park is at an emergency status.

       

In the next couple of years the erosion at Sunset Cliffs will reach crisis levels, very similar to the coastlines in other Southern California coastal locations. Many Southern California coastal locations are experiencing catastrophic home and coastal useable land loss. At this point Sunset Cliffs park is at emergency land loss status. Sunset Cliffs Boulevard is also in serious jeopardy of being lost if the current rate of erosion isn't addressed immediately. If the erosion isn't addressed immediately there will not only be serious crisis conditions with the coastal parkland and boulevard loss but also with crisis status of home and life loss along Sunset Cliffs. The Current need for a new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" could not be under stated.
The Save Sunset Cliffs Master Plan for Sunset Cliffs Park is as follows:

    1. Stop the erosion of Sunset Cliffs Park.

    2. The preservation and repair of Sunset Cliffs Boulevard.

    3. The preservation of the current use, the history, and the surf culture of the park.

Accomplishing this new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" is the top priority of the "Save Sunset Cliffs Master Plan". This new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System" will dramatically eliminate the erosion of the Sunset Cliffs by allowing the cliff edge in Sunset Cliffs Park, to dry out and stop the "Top-Down Block Erosion" that is occurring at Sunset Cliffs Park. Stopping the saturation of the cliff edge with a new "Comprehensive Storm Drain System", will allow for the repair of the Boulevard where it is being undermined by the uncontrolled surface runoff,  and save the boulevard for future generations.