By Audrey Dillin, KALW Crosscurrents
An unusual scene has been playing out at Ocean Beach over the past few weeks: Huge dump trucks hauling loads of sand from the north end of the beach, near the Beach Chalet, 2.5 miles down the Great Highway to the south end of the beach, at the fast-eroding intersection of Sloat Boulevard. It’s just one battle in a war between man and Mother Nature that’s been going on at the beach for decades.
“We’re going to do about a thousand truckloads in the course of the next few weeks,” says Jean Walsh, from the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission.
The goal is to move about 37,000 tons of sand.
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