Lawson's Landing

Lawson's Landing is being threatened with closure.  Please help keep this precious resource open by filling out and sending the form on their website www.lawsonslanding.com in the "Wheelhouse" section.

The Landing is one of the few places to launch a kayak onto Tomales Bay.

Thanks
JZumi

Here is the form. This is a great spot if you have never been there put it on the top of your list.Thanks Jzumi for bringing it to our attention, I hadn't heard about it. This would be a great place for a butte tourney.

I use Lawson's Landing for my coastal trailer or tent camping, beach access, boat launch or other use and I don't want to lose it!  Please allow the lawful process already under way to continue in the manner proscribed by law so we and future generations will be able to enjoy this unique coastal area as we have.

 

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Send to:        LAWSON'S LANDING

                        P. O. BOX 67

                        DILLON BEACH, CA 94929

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Lawson's Landing is not  being threatened with closure. It is threatening to close because it doesn't want to pay to conform with the permitting process. They have been more or less operatiing outside the law for 20 years or more. If you want them to be able to keep fllushing sewage into the bay and endangering the fish your after be short sighted and sign the petition. Then you can still camp there when the fish are gone.

There is also Nicks Cove to launch at.
5 bucks a day parking fee.....
Just south of Lawsons by a few miles. hard paddle from there to Lawsons though.

Lawson's Landing is not  being threatened with closure. It is threatening to close because it doesn't want to pay to conform with the permitting process. They have been more or less operatiing outside the law for 20 years or more. If you want them to be able to keep fllushing sewage into the bay and endangering the fish your after be short sighted and sign the petition. Then you can still camp there when the fish are gone.

Do you have any references to back this up? I am not doubting you at all, just trying to put together the information.

Bill here is a article from sfgate.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/05/23/BAGU0CT0OJ1.DTL
I thought one quote was interesting from a Biologist who lives there.

Brezina, the marine biologist, says that -- so far, at least -- the landing is contributing little if any pollution to the bay.

"The invertebrates I collect are used as baseline specimens in (pollution) laboratories across the country, simply because they are essentially uncontaminated," Brezina said. "I've been collecting here 30 years. If there were problems with toxics, I'd pick them right up, or my labs would call and say 'Hey, what's this ... we're seeing in the tissues?' "

Here's a link to the EIR http://www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/CD/main/comdev/eir.cfm

There is also Nicks Cove to launch at.
5 bucks a day parking fee.....
Just south of Lawsons by a few miles. hard paddle from there to Lawsons though.

 The following is some excerpts from one site I copied. I also have a copy of a PDF document that is a comment sheet in PDF form from a bunch of tree hugging organzations. Now, I don't necessarily buy into the whole thing but they back up a lot of there comments and about 90% of the document makes sense. If you want to try a search the document is titled, Lawsonenviimpsttmt.pdf.

CLAMS
The Clam Clipper, which takes visitors to prime offshore claming spots has been temporarily suspended because overharvesting has resulted in an alarming drop in the clam population.  Visitors can still take their own or rental boats out to the mudflats to clam, however, and Fish and Game wardens report many incidents of illegal harvesting and cases of disturbance
SEPTIC
The most pressing problem facing Lawson's Landing's owners is the fact that none of the roughly more than 100 primitive septic systems serving the RV park are legal or permitted by the County.  To meet Marin County requirements, the owners have submitted a Master Plan that calls for the installation of a new septic system.  The new system would collect wastewater from the entire site and pump it to a recirculating sand filter for treatment before sending it to a leachfield.   But there are many problems with this proposal. The septic system (both the sand filter and the leachfield) would be near the campground in the mobile dunes where moving sands could bury or expose them.  To prevent this, the plan entails planting to stabilize the dunes, an action that would seriously damage the integrity and ecological dynamics of the mobile dune system.  An alternative plan is to put the leachfields under one of the seasonal wetlands.  However, this would create a year-round wetland and drive out species that are adapted to the special conditions of a seasonal wetland.  Another problem is that the percolation rates for dune sands are too fast to allow for purification by soil bacteria and are well outside the limit established by both Marin County and Regional Water Quality Control Board regulations.
SAND
The sand quarry at Lawson's Landing has been in operation since 1976. Every year 60,000 tons of sand are taken from the dunes for use in concrete, dairy barns, gardens, and golf courses.  In 1990, Marin County issued a permit for expansion of the operation from 23 to 39 acres without requiring the preparation of an environmental impact report. The rationale for enlarging the quarry area was to create two quarry sites that could be alternated, in order to allow the sand to be replenished by wind deposition. But the foredunes are now largely overrun by European beachgrass, which traps all onshore-blown sand, so the mined dune is no longer a renewable resource, but one of finite proportions