Offshore reef in Pacifica

Happy Friday y’all. I haven’t posted in ages, but I’m still here (and was planning on RF this weekend, but weather is unwelcoming).
I found out that a bunch of folks have an idea to build an offshore reef in Sharp Park (the Pacifica Pier beach). Looks like their main goal is to create a big surf wave using a reef (from rocks or even the rubble of the pier!) They say that breaking the swell will protect the shore and fight erosion, and help with fish and kelp habitat. Nice idea. I heard they got approval from the city, but not sure what it means. Looks like a very early stage idea.

that could be interesting; i wonder if it would be a closed fishing zone.... I'm uneducated on this subject but isnt Pacifica pier already subjected to monstrous destructive waves? Would this tame that down?

Coastal commision and EPA will sink this quick.

Coastal commision and EPA will sink this quick.

Highly likely.

Yeah, I’d love to see projects like this happen, but it seems likely to be killed by red tape.

I hope California shifts to a mindset of wanting to build things.

So interestingly a similar reef (first in the US) was built in California before. It’s knows as the Chevron Reef.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevron_Reef

It wasn’t successful, but possibly due to implementation issues. I think that a reef needs to have a long flat top to create a surfable wave. It almost needs to be like a shelf (like in Mavericks). That’s hard to build.

Back in my East Coast days, there was a legend of a plumber who would take all the old toilets he had removed and drop them off his boat at the same spot just offshore in New Jersey. The secret oasis was called shitter reef.