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TO: Members of the Newport Beach City Council
FROM: Dave Kiff, Assistant City Manager
SUBJECT: Surfside- Sunset and Newport Beach Federal Beach Erosion Control
Project - Agreement to Participate in and Fund Stage 11
RECOMMENDED Authorize the Mayor to execute an Agreement with the County of Orange
ACTION: relating to the City's participation in and funding for Stage 11 of the Surfside -
Sunset and Newport Beach Federal Beach Erosion Control Project.
BACKGROUND: The Orange County coastline is home to some of the most popular beaches in the
United States, including the ocean beaches of Newport Beach. The more than
2,000,000 visitors a year who come to Newport`s wide sandy beaches expect the
sand to be clean, groomed, and present when they arrive.
Sand typically appears on beaches as a result of a natural erosion process that
includes the scouring of inland riverbanks (where storm water carries sediment
from the sides of creek channels out to sea) and the gradual erosion of coastal
bluffs. Modem development can impede the transport of sand replenishment
materials to the beach - such development includes the "armoring" of coastal
bluffs with seawalls and the construction of flood control channels upstream.
In the early 1960s, the US Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) constructed
navigation and flood control channels in Long Beach and Anaheim Bay that
limited the production and disbursement of sand along the Orange County
coastline. Without the constant replenishment of sand to local beaches, waves
and tidal action can quickly cause a sandy beach to become a rocky, sandless
beach unwelcoming to visitors.
To repair some of the damage done to natural sand transport by the federal
projects in Long Beach and Anaheim Bay, in 1962 the Corps began a long -term
beach nourishment project known to us as Surfside- Sunset and Newport Beach
( "Project") that included periodic beach nourishment every 5 years off of the
Orange County coast. The Corps places most of the sand deposits in a "feeder"
area off of Seal Beach - littoral drift then carries the sand down the coast. The
littoral "cell' within which the currents distribute sand begins in Seal Beach and
ends at the northerly jetty at the Wedge.
Ten of these nourishment actions occurred between 1964 and 1997 - each one is
referred to by the Corps as a stage. By the time Stage 10 Quly 1997) was
complete, about 15.6 million cubic yards (CY) of sand had been placed off of Seal
Beach since 1964, with eight rock groins constructed in West Newport and an
additional 2.1 million CYs of sand placed directly on the beach in West Newport.
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Stage 11. In 2000 and 2001, the Corps, along with its state partner, the
Department of Boating and Waterways, has prepared and Environmental
Assessment (EA) and plans and specifications for Stage 11 of the Project. Stage
11 envisions the placement of 1.75 million cubic yards of sand off the coast at
Surfside- Sunset Beach. Stage 11 does not contemplate any specific sand
replenishment or groin construction activity directly off of Newport Beach (see
map in Attachment B).
Partners and Costs. Most Corps projects involve a cost - sharing agreement
between the Corps and its state and local partners. Traditionally, cost - sharing
agreements require the state and local partners to fund 33% of the cost of the
project, with the federal government covering the remaining 67 %. As an
important note, the Bush Administration has proposed reversing this split,
resulting in a 67% state /local requirement with a 33% federal match. This
reversed split, if enacted, does not apply to this specific Stage of the Project, but it
may apply to future stages and other cost - shared efforts involving the Corps.
The total estimated cost (all partners) for Stage 11 is $12.7 million. The non-
federal share (33%) is $4.191 million. Of the non - federal share, the state and local
partners have traditionally apportioned costs to each partner based on the
percentage of beach footage each partner administers along the 80,000 linear feet
of beach in the Project area.
In 1999, the State Legislature enacted the California Public Beach Restoration Act
(AB 64, Ducheny,1999). The State Budget in FY 2000 -01 authorized $35 million
in funding for the Act and its various beach nourishment projects across
California. The California Department of Boating and Waterways (DBW)
administers the Act's funding. $3.85 million of Stage 11's non - federal funding
will come from the DBW and AB 64 - all of that amount will be allocated to
California State Parks' share of the bill.
Here's how the costs are allocated:
Federal Share
Non - Federal Share
Total Cost of Project
State Parks
Surfside District
Huntington Beach
Newport Beach
County of Orange
Total for Project
67% $ 8,509,000
33% $ 4,191,000
100% $ 12,700,000
Lineal Feet of %of Total Dollar contribution Local Contribution
Beach Beachfront by % of Beach
44,884
56.11%
$ 3,850,000
- N/A-
2,705
3.38%
$ 341,000
$ 26.267
5,500
6.88%
$ 53,409
22,137
27.67%
$ 214,965
4,774
5.97%
$ 46,359
80,000 100% $ 4,191,000 $ 341,000
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The FY 2001 -02 Capital Improvement Program (CIP) for the City allocates half of
the cost ($107,000) during the current fiscal year and proposes the allocation of
another $108,000 at the start of FY 2002 -03 to fund this Project. As noted, the
City's total contribution to Stage 11 will be $215,000.
THIS AGENDA This Agenda Item asks the City Council to approve the City's participation
ITEM: in Stage 11 of an ongoing beach nourishment project that dates back to 1964. If
the Council agrees to the recommended action, the Mayor will sign an
Agreement with the County of Orange and pay the County $215,000 over two
budget years. The County will pay the Corps, and the Corps will complete Stage
11 of the beach nourishment project. Stage 11 costs $12.7 million overall and
places 1.8 million cubic yards of sand off of Surfside- Sunset beach, where
currents are supposed to carry it to West Newport beaches.
ATTACHMENTS: Attachment A - Proposed Agreement with the County of Orange
Attachment B - Map of Surfside- Sunset and Newport Beach Project Area
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Attachment A
Agreement No. DO1 -057
AGREEMENT
FEDERAL BEACH EROSION CONTROL PROJECT
STAGE 11
THIS AGREEMENT is made and entered into the day of , 2001.
BY AND BETWEEN
COUNTY OF ORANGE, a political
Subdivision of the State of California,
Hereinafter called "COUNTY."
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, a municipal
Corporation, hereinafter called "CITY."
WHEREAS, Congress has, by the enactment of Public Law 874, 87ih Congress, adopted and
authorized a beach erosion control project to be accomplished in stages, which extends from Anaheim
Bay Harbor to the west jetty of Newport Beach Harbor in Orange County, and
WHEREAS, the implementation of said Federal beach erosion project is of direct benefit to the
beaches owned and operated by CITY and COUNTY in providing a source of beach sand for
replenishment of natural erosion of said beaches, and
WHEREAS, the United States Army Corps of Engineers is prepared to undertake Stage 11 of said
project at an estimated cost of $12,700,000 to be financed on the following basis:
Federal Government $8,509,000
State of California $3,850,000
Local Agency shoreline $341,000
owners consisting of cities,
COUNTY, Private Property
Owners and State Division of
Beaches and Parks
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1 WHEREAS, COUNTY is prepared to pay, on behalf of those private and public beach owners
2 identified hereinbelow, $341,000 for Stage 11 construction, and
3 WHEREAS, the shoreline owners' proportionate share of $341,000 cost for State 11 is based
4 upon a formula depicting the percentage of the 80,000 linear feet of beach frontage property owned by
5 each public entity which is within the Federal project area. The total cost breakdown is as follows:
6 Private beach owners: Surfside Colony Storm Water
Protection District
7 (0.21 %) $ 26,257
8 Public beach owners: Orange County Harbors, Beaches
and Parks
9 (0.37 %) $ 46,359
10 City of Huntington Beach
(0.42 %) $ 53,413
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City of Newport Beach
12 (1.69 %) $214,971
13 TOTAL 341 000
14 NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto do mutually agree as follows:
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16 CITY agrees that any funds remaining from Stage 10 project shall be applied to the design cost of
17 Stage 11 of the project which shall cover the entire 80,000 lineal frontage of shoreline of the Federal
1e project area, and that the final accounting of Stage 10 funding shall be incorporated into the accounting
19 for Stage 11 described in Clause V herein.
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1 CITY agrees to pay COUNTY on or before September 1, 2001, or immediately after approval of
2 this agreement by all parties hereto, CITY's portion of the cost of Stage 11 of the aforesaid beach erosion
3 control project, said portion being the amount of $214,971.
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5 COUNTY agrees to coordinate said project with CITY and other local shoreline owners, and the
6 State of California, to the mutual benefit of all parties concerned.
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e COUNTY shall, on or before September 1, 2001, or immediately after approval of this agreement
9 and similar agreements by all of the aforementioned local shoreline owners and receipt of billing from the
10 State of California, pay the local shoreline owners' portion of the Stage 11 Federal beach erosion control
11 project in the amount of $341,000 to the State of California to facilitate implementation of said Stage 11
12 project.
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14 COUNTY will obtain from the State of California Department of Boating and Waterways, the
15 agency coordinating the Stage 11 project with the United States Army Corps of Engineers, an accounting
16 of all expenditures of all funds received for Stage 11 of the aforementioned project and shall pursue
17 refund of any funds which are in excess of ultimate project cost of a proportionate basis to COUNTY and
18 shall, in turn, refund to CITY its prorated share of any refunds received within 30 days after receipt
19 thereof by COUNTY in a ratio equal to that stated in the recitals of page 2 of this agreement.
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21 To the extent permitted by law, CITY shall indemnify and save harmless COUNTY, its officers,
22 agents, and employees from and against all claims, demands, loss or liability of any land or nature which
23 CITY, its officers, agents, and employees may sustain or incur or which may be imposed upon them or
24 any of them for injury to or death of persons, or damage to property as a result of the negligence or
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wrongful act or omission by COUNTY, its officers, agents, employees, or invitees in carrying out the
terms of this agreement or exercising the rights herein granted.
// IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this agreement on the date opposite
their respective signatures:
Date:
Date:
SIGNED AND CERTIFIED THAT A
COPY OF THIS DOCUMENT HAS
BEEN DELIVERED TO THE
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD.
Darlene J. Bloom
Clerk of the Board of Supervisors
of Orange County, California
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
LAURENCE M. WATSON, County Counsel
ORANGE COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
By:
Deputy
REVIEWED AND APPROVED
Homer L, Bludau, City Manager
COUNTY OF ORANGE, a political subdivision
of the State of California
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Chair of the Board of Supervisors
CITY OF NEWPORT BEACH, a municipal
Corporation
By:
GAROLD B. ADAMS, Mayor
ATTEST:
LAVONNE HARKLESS, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Robert Burnham, City Attorney
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