{"id":433415,"date":"2026-08-15T03:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433415\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T03:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T03:12:08","slug":"flooding-undercut-cliffs-likely-as-ca-is-lashed-with-highest-sea-levels-ever-this-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/433415\/","title":{"rendered":"Flooding, Undercut Cliffs Likely As CA Is Lashed With ‘Highest Sea Levels Ever’ This Winter"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Malibu, a section of Point Dume Beach<\/a> was closed earlier this month after high tides and large swells caused severe erosion. The erosion created unstable bluff edges and drop-offs, according to Los Angeles County’s Department of Beaches and Harbors. <\/p>\n

“The bluff edge is unstable, with drop-offs approaching 8 feet in some locations, creating a significant safety hazard,” the department said in an advisory. <\/p>\n

Erosion is also threatening Pacific Coast Highway<\/a> in Malibu, particularly in areas where seawalls were destroyed when homes burned in the Palisades Fire. The city urged Caltrans to install permanent protections before winter. <\/p>\n

“Left unaddressed, the erosion trend will continue to accelerate, removing the material that supports the roadway embankment,” Malibu officials said in a news release<\/a>. “The onset of El Ni\u00f1o conditions this storm season significantly raises the likelihood of heavy rainfall, high surf and wave events that could compress months of expected erosion into a single storm cycle.” <\/p>\n

In Carlsbad, powerful swells recently stripped much of the sand and damaged portions of a parking lot at Tamarack State Beach. Several lifeguard towers have also been relocated because of the erosion, KTLA<\/a> reported. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Malibu, a section of Point Dume Beach was closed earlier this month after high tides and large…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[74,76,75],"class_list":["post-433415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}