Two million visitors a year drive on Oceano beach for a day trip or on their way to Sand City, 1,000 unmarked campsites for $10 a night, and the Sand Highway, the off-roading playground on the Oceano Dunes State Vehicle Recreational Area.
Driving back, they carry tons of sand on their tires. Most of it is deposited on Pier Avenue and in the vicinity. The sand on Pier Avenue is almost totally found just on its south side. Cars leaving the beach drop it from their tires.
State Parks and SLO County regularly sweep and remove the sand at least two days a week. I inquired with parks and the county and learned that the grand total of sand removed from Ocean beach averages 34.7 tons of sand per week mostly via Pier Avenue. Our county spends $600 a month to have the sand removed. The sand is contaminated and cannot be put back on the beach. We are paying to have our own beach thrown into one of our landfills.
Oceano is losing its beach! Our community is at tremendous risk from sea level rise and stormy high tide conditions. Driving on Oceano’s beach should be banned.
Lucia Casalinuovo
Oceano
This article appears in Jan 3-10, 2019.
NUT JOB!!! Sand blows onshore. It blows from the northwest. This it collects on the south side of the street. This woman is a misanthrope.
What a total dipshit. Ever heard of the phenomenon called wind?
Spends 600 a month lol. Earns 6000 from the visitors.
OMG SLO pays 600 a month to remove wind blown sand from the streets? How about the millions that us visitors bring into the community each weekend? No account for that in your analysis?
I’ve read better and more thought out opinion pieces from my 8th grade school newspaper. Come to think of it, we took more pride in insuring that such pieces were factual and told a complete story as well.
Go down to the Guadalupe entrance where NO cars drive on and the road is inches thick in sand, FROM THE WIND. Do your research…
I lived in Venice and Santa Monica as a very young girl. In fact, my fisherman father was a Venice Lifeguard. I remember clearly the sand we fought on a daily basis without a single car or dune buggy having been on Venice beach since the 1930s.
Denying the 2 million visitors access to the only beach and dunes of it’s kind in California is extremely selfish on the part of local residents.
We choose to live in one of the best locations in the world. We need to allows others to enjoy it as well.
gail lightfoot
Arroyo Grande
The Dunes have been there for millions of years, long before housing was built in Nipomo. How do people get off knowingly and willingly buy homes along the mesa and then bitch about the dunes and try and get them shut down?
All the homes on the Nipomo mesa who complain about dune dust should be demolished