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Are sand erosion and rising seas a concern for nuclear waste storage?
By Heather McRea | This week in Coast Lines: When the conditions are just right for raising the level of the sea and sending big waves ashore, some are asking if there should be concerns about the storage of spent fuel at the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station.
Plus, it is still stinking around the Hyperion plant that had to release sewage and close several beaches, and Bubbles, the pilot whale statue from the shuttered Marineland of the Pacific, may find her way back out in public again.
Here’s what’s happening along the Southern California coast. | | | Nuclear waste stored at San Onofre waits permanent spot
Recently a big swell rolled in just as tides were at their highest, and waves reached further up the shore than most days.
In some places, the strips of sand were suddenly nonexistent, and in front of the San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station, the waves crashed over a rocky barrier and reached the outer sea wall, about 100 feet from where the station's nuclear waste waits until the federal government can find a permanent place for storage.
Tide conditions like that can happen several times a year and sea levels are on the rise because of climate change, but Southern California Edison officials assure the "concrete monolith" and the storage system inside it for maintaining the spent fuel are designed to withstand all of that.
Read the story. | Seaside El Segundo still stinking
A reminder of a large sewage spill from the Hyperion Water Reclamation Plant three weeks back lingers in the air, El Segundo residents say.
Residents of the seaside town have described the smell as putrid, overwhelming and even noxious.
Sanitation officials said the smell will likely linger until repairs are completed from when debris backed up so bad it threatened to flood the plant and raw sewage had to be released into the ocean. They also continue to investigate what happened.
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| | | People should see Bubbles
Until Marineland of the Pacific's closure in 1987, a 26-foot fiberglass statue of a pilot whale named Bubbles welcomed visitors.
Rancho Palos Verdes officials and residents are again pushing to find a better home for the statue than the city's maintenance yard.
Councilman David Bradley said even though Bubbles would need significant restoration work if displayed again, he’d "love to have that nod back to the Rancho Palos Verdes and Peninsula of the '50s and '60s."
Read the story. | What else?
Paying for an ocean water desalination plant proposed in El Segundo would likely increase water bills about 10% a year for a decade.
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The Navy has agreed to reexamine its ocean training with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration after it appears whales were killed.
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Traditional paddle-out memorials are planned this month for surf shop owner and announcer Rick “Rockin’ Fig” Fignetti and Seal Beach shaper Rich Harbour.
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| | | In the ocean
Elegant terns that appeared to have been scared from their usual nesting grounds in the Bolsa Chica Wetlands only to squeeze onto floating barges in Long Beach Harbor that were too small to fit their numbers seem to now be successfully raising their chicks with a little human ingenuity. After hundreds of the baby birds fell from the barges, they have been returned by rescuers who nursed them to health and then fashioned low-floating haul-outs now tied to the barges to keep the babies high and dry if they do fall again.
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