UC Irvine civil and environmental engineering professor Brett Sanders, whose team is tracking the results of a smaller-scale sand project recently completed further north at Capistrano and Doheny State beaches, said the San Clemente project and a similar replenishment effort that just launched at Surfside-Sunset Beach north of Huntington Beach bring a lot of benefit for the region. … “We know that beaches drive tourism and recreation – the economic activities that produce state and federal taxes and fill the coffers of coastal cities, [Sanders said]. Read More