CARLSBAD — The past several weeks have seen the city’s coastline take a beating as Tamarack State Beach had its sand ripped away and the city declared an emergency near the Las Encinas Creek Bridge.
Strong swells from Hurricane Genevieve ripped sand off the shoreline in August. The swells also blocked off 35 parking spaces in the lot at the intersection of Tamarack Avenue and Carlsbad Boulevard.
More recently, waves and erosion have damaged the parking lot, forcing the California State Parks, which owns six miles of beach in Carlsbad and the lot, to close parking access for the foreseeable future. Jonathan Moreno, a state parks spokesman, said the loss of sand, combined with wave action, caused the riprap protecting the shoreline to slough westward….
