“If we knew then what we know now, we’d have done Fiesta Island a little differently,” Earnest reflects. “We would have mixed the west bay sand with the east bay muck to fill Fiesta Island.”
August 6, 1992
Map of Mission Bay. Virtually all of the sand and silt dredged from Mission Bay was redistributed elsewhere within the bay. Earnest says the only sand that was piped out of the park was dumped on Mission Beach.
Posted August 6, 1992
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