While the rest of the country debates the reality of climate change and sea levels rising, San Francisco is moving ahead with a plan to keep a sewage-water treatment plant from falling into the ocean. The Oceanside Water Pollution Control Plant sits just east of what remains of the Great Highway extension between Sloat and Skyline boulevards.
In the fall of 2022, Sachi Cunningham, Amber Cady and a few friends were enjoying a rare hot day in San Francisco’s Outer Sunset District and an impromptu cold plunge in the ocean. Cunningham, renowned for her extensive work with big wave surf photography and ocean advocacy, was pleasantly surprised at how eager her non-sea-legged friends were to join – and to keep going.
The City’s plan is moving forward to replace the Great Highway south of Sloat Boulevard with a walking path and seawall to deal with erosion threatening a wastewater treatment plant and sewage pipeline at Ocean Beach.
Previously, we wrote about the very first road into the Richmond, and how this umbilical connection to the rest of the city ushered in the housing development that made the Richmond, well, […]
To help the beach between Sloat Boulevard and Fort Funston keep its sand from eroding away entirely, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has placed a sand berm next to the rocks and cliffs protecting a sewage facility from the ocean waves.
In 2018, Stone won the Women’s Shortboard High School State Championship at Oceanside Harbor in San Diego. The following season, she snagged three more regional championships and seven first-place finishes in individual events.
Hundreds of hearty souls braved the chilly Pacific Ocean waves at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on the first day of 2020 to start the new year off with an exhilarating experience.
District 1 Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer and Public Works Director Mohammed Nuru were at the parking lot at Ocean Beach, across from Golden Gate Park, to showcase “quality-of-life initiatives” in the Richmond District, with the recent addition of the City’s newest Pit Stop public toilet and the successful completion of #FewerPotholes 2.0.
Historical photo from 1905,
On Friday, June 30, a six-month effort was launched to reduce the
number of toxic cigarette butt waste in San Francisco’s
Sunset and Richmond districts when SF supervisors Sandra Lee Fewer
and Katy Tang organized a kick-off event and beach clean-up at Ocean Beach.
Historic photo of Ocean Beach, circa 1900.
Nearly 1,000 elementary school students from San Francisco and Marin came
together to “rescue” San Francisco’s Ocean Beach on May 17 at the 24th annual
Kids Ocean Day Adopt-A-Beach Cleanup.
“The Ocean Beach Master Plan, because of erosion at south
Ocean Beach, identified the need for some retreat so that the beach
can persist there, also protection of the wastewater infrastructure
there,” said Maggie Wenger, of the SF Planning Department,
during a community meeting in May.
Photo of Playland at the Beach, circa 1940.
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