San Mateo Daily Journal
By Julia Lee
To protect homes, businesses, public infrastructure and recreational spaces, the city of Pacifica is moving ahead with planning to improve the outdated infrastructure along Beach Boulevard where its famous pier can be found.
“The inception of this project can really be dated back to when the sea walls were built in the 1980s in the area,” Ryan Marquez, the project manager, said. “The infrastructure of the sea walls are coming to the end of their useful life. And so this project has come as a result of multiple failures along the existing sea walls in combination with sea level rise.”
The Beach Boulevard Infrastructure Resiliency Project will replace the current seawall and infrastructure. The project is assessing the entire span of the current infrastructure and seawall including four different structures, the north wall, the pier sheet pile wall, the south wall and south gap.
It had a full wall breach in 2016 and other smaller failures in the winter of 2019 to 2020 and winter of 2020-21, Marquez said.
Assembly Speaker pro Tem Kevin Mullin, D-South San Francisco, had a joint request with state Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo, for $500,000 to repair and replace damage to the Pacifica Municipal Pier. The city received funding for the project through Senate Bill 129, also known as the June 28 Budget Package which was signed by the Gov. Gavin Newsom July 12.