Santa barbara coast. Photograph: © SAF — Coastal Care.
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Flooding isn’t new to the Santa Barbara coastline. However, the inundation doesn’t always come from the mountains as it did last month in Montecito. Back in 1861-2, a series of large storms washed beach sand more than a quarter mile inland into what today is the Carpinteria Salt Marsh.
Although historical accounts document the inland flooding, little has been known about how those storms impacted a now heavily developed California coast…
Read Full Article; Science Daily (02-26-2018)
Natural Response; UCSB News Current (02-20-2018)
Trucking Mud to the Beaches Means More Sand but Dirtier Waters, CA; Santa Barbara Independent (02-08-2018)
When Santa Barbara County dumps tons of mud from the catastrophic debris flow of January 9 on the shores of Goleta and Carpinteria, this wasn’t like anything that’s happened before. So residents are asking, “Will there be long-term effects? Might there be other locations that can share the impacts..?”
