I went down to the beach today to ask a few people, well the people who didn't tell me no once I whipped out my HD Flip camera about what they thought of the local beach and the $8 million dollars to run a test (Long Beach will pay for approximately half of that amount) to decide if removing or reconfiguring the breakwater will bring waves and cleaner water back to our shores. The City Council are having a meeting to vote on this issue today at 5:30 p.m. Do you think the study is something we need to put money into or is it something that's going to slow down the process of getting our beach fixed?

Here's a quote from a press release from City Manager Pat West: "The Feasibility Study will take a minimum of 4 years to complete and will cost $8,337,400. In the Feasibility Study the Army Corps will conduct an extensive analysis including wave modeling, water quality modeling, economic analysis, environmental analysis, engineering and design analysis, geotechnical studies, review of tidal elevations, sediment transport, and analysis of other areas." ^_^