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Seals and people to be together at last?
Wrong, please read the Trust above. There is not to be a beach at all. There never was a beach until the four grilled sluiceways were concreted in. The Trust includes the breakwater Wall, and the actual sand bottom bathing pool from the natural high tide mark. Judge Pate and the Centers for Disease Control ordered the sand to be removed as it is very polluted, very serious now. There WAS NO beach, no sand in 1931. Prior to the construction of the sea wall there was no beach it was a natural reef pool. It is legally a sand bottom swimming pool and should be restored to serve the one in five disabled for whom it was built and for whom there is a great need. Just look across the street, a retirement community. Restore the ramp to go along with that Disabled shower going in, Why would a paraplegic need a shower if he can not access the water as historically there and as is on the map as the only dedicated legal easement ramp to the high water mark.— October 18, 2014 10:15 p.m.
Seals and people to be together at last?
No, you are incorrect. There never was a BEACH, it was a natural reef pool prior to the creation of the seawall. And all the pool from the high tide mark is in the Trust as a human bathing pool. This is still in effect no matter the closures. The sand excavation order still stands as well. No sand was there. It only backed up when the four grilled sluiceways were concreted in prior to the Grand Opening of the Children's Pool in 1931. Judge Pate in 2004 ordered this sand to be removed as it is very polluted with potential fatal bacteria. It is the sand that is so polluted as opposed to the water. It is meant to be a pool. Remove the sea wall and the sand will disappear in a day.— October 18, 2014 10:07 p.m.
Seals and people to be together at last?
The one in five disabled Americans lose. The Children's Pool ramp served wheelchairs for over half a century. It is the Grandfather of all disability ramps on the West Coast. The Pool is the only Ocean Pool on the Continental United States of American. There is one other operating properly in Hawaii. Sydney Australia could easily be a sister city to San Diego. Only they have about 45 such pools, all water tested and clean with ramps, and swing lifts. They too love their sea creatures but do not allow them in their ocean pools much like the ONE we have. Some of their ocean pools are over 100 years old and they bring home the most swimming gold medals. They value being IN the ocean and San Diego is only making money from the view of marine mammals even as they dies from disease and starvation. Terrible to use the seals for profit and block the disabled.— October 18, 2014 10:01 p.m.
Seals and people to be together at last?
In 2004 Valorie OSullivan sued the City of S.D. for allowing harbor seals to haul out and pollute the pool making it unsafe as a bathing pool as per the Trust of Ellen Scripps. The City of San Diego lost as it was determined that the sand was thick with seal feces. The Centers for Disease Control reported same and ordered the sand to be removed, stacked in the sun to sanitize and be hauled to La Jolla Shores that needs extra sand. Then a for hire environmental opportunist attorney with a daddy with connections in SAC. actually changed the dead womans' will/trust. That was ten years ago, can you imagine the concentrations of feces now? Especially where they want the humans to stand and play behind rope which is also dangerous on a children's Playground. Legally that is what it is, a bathing pool and playground. Sea World illegally dropped off seals for eleven years with out ever doing an EIR to ascertain IF the undersea ecology could support so many new marine mammals never there previously in such numbers. And now we have some serious dead zones from the devastation caused by the hungry seals and their waste. Dead and polluted Tide Pools. Fish stocks very seriously depleted, including Garibaldi, Opal Eye Perch. CA Black Mussels are GONE from the Children's Pool, South Casa, and Shell Beach Seal Rock areas. They are an indicator species and so gone too are the Tide Pool Creatures. The area has become very unbalanced due to the Seal Population Explosion since Seal World Released them beginning in 1992. I have all the release records. To remove the filthy sand, reopen the four grilled sluiceways, would be to make a clean pool and clean water for all creatures, seals, people and Tide Pool Creatures. Sea Stars could be planted, and the historic access ramp restored, so a disabled person can experience seeing a sea star in the real Pacific Ocean in safety like at no other place on the West Coast. This is logic and true environmentalism, as balance and a clean environment is key for the ocean's health. Ironically to Restore the Children's Pool will be to Restore the Environment. This is a Win Win, right now we have a loose-loose. No logic. The recent sewage spill on top of the seal's devastation to the undersea ecosystem will do it in. If it had been a healthy environment to begin with it may have survived. I know this as I have been IN the water with the seals for four years, and SEE the truth. They are in serious trouble as is their home; for the sake of making money off the View of Seals, with no care for them except to count their pups who lay ill in their own feces. More pups more money as they get hungrier and hungrier and disabled people are blocked. Some very serious selfishness from people calling themselves friends of the seals just using them for profit. Huge profits. Follow the Money. For more information please go to : restorechildrenspool.org— October 18, 2014 9:52 p.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
The smell has been bad at Children's Pool the safest swimming area for years. We need to unite and save Children's Pool especially for the disabled and the Cove as the two human swimming areas , all the rest for the marine mammals. How many bits and illnesses will it take Mr. City Attorney? How much money will the City keep giving to attorneys who do not care a fig about marine mammals, only the money they can make for supporting flushing them or not flushing them, which ever way the wind blows, for the dough being made off the comodity of seals and sea lions. Who is looking and protecting the ecosystem from the over populations of these lovey pinnepeds? No one. Cape Cod fish stocks will never recover from their populations of seals now into the thousands, and the stench overpowering even the most ardent of seal viewer. It is about Balance, and we need to restore ours. With all these Marine agencies, just looking the other way as they collect their salaries based upon keeping the populations explodiing? Come on, we want an abundant MPA like Cabo Pulmo not species depletion and pollution from feces!!! Let's wise up as a City. Check out Syndey Australia, and follow their lead. They keep their 45 ocean pools, like our Children's Pool clean and free of marine mammals, and they love their creatures too. They love swimming in the ocean and keep their ocean pools clean and safe. We only have one and have allowed it to fall to ruin. It's only rebar and concrete and sand. Judge Pate ordered that sand dredged and the pool restored back in 2004 after all EIR were done and all agreed it was best for seals NOt to haul out there as the breakwater does not wash the feces and e.coli and potentiallly T.B. germs to wash clean. The sand was to be piled in the sun for cleaning then taken to La Jolla Shores where they needed some sand. The studies were done to show the sluiceways can be opened. The seals will be fine and better off in a clean pool restored back to a POOL, it was not meant to be a beach, Children's POOL. POOL, not beach. Can you imagine a great ADA Ramp there and Challenged Athletes practicing, elderly doing water therapy, Casa Manana folks actually able to enjoy fresh clean sea air and not feces stench. The stench gets just as bad as the Cove and has been for decades.— January 19, 2014 9:44 a.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
Sea World brought them beginning in 1992 . No pre release EIR was done to ascertain if the local underwater eco system could sustain such huge numbers of new marine mammals. No on going studies to compare pre seal and sea lion release fish stocks and species counts in relation to the ongoing birth explosions. Or the fecal contamination and the many species killed off in the shallows and tide pools by decaces of seal feces leaching at The Children's Pool. Open the slucieways, plant sea stars, remodel the ramp to ADA Standards. Lets Put Children's Pool on the ADA Map of the World and give back to our disabled folks and the many limbless Veterans , who have NO other safe ocean pool entry anywhere.— January 19, 2014 9:32 a.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
It is not Kate Sessions Captain, it was Ellen Browning Scripps who built the wall for Toddlers, the Elderly and for those handicapped in life's game, her words. There is no other safe ocean pool entry for wheelchair swimmers along the San Deigo coastline. The Children's Pool is IT, and the ramp was the primary acces route, is a legal dedicated vertical access poing on the La Jolla Coastal Plan. Just enforce it. Allow the disabled access again. Open those sluiceways and the pool cleans itself.— January 19, 2014 9:28 a.m.
La Jolla Cove is becoming a sea lion cesspool
Go watch BlackFish and learn that sea lions and seals are just a comodity to Sea World. Wake up and look under the sea, do you see Garibaldi, do you see mussels? Do you see urchins, and the other Tide Pool Creatures gone from the fecal contaminition. Research Cape Code and their seal populations into the thousands, feces killing species just like at Children's Pool. Sharks have been killed for fin soup to the tune of 100 million a year, what do they eat? Its the law of suppy and demand. Yes Mankind is involved, rescuing animals that need to be left for food for sharks, not making money off allowing them to starve. then to rescue the same animimal again, tag it for a few grand and do it over and over again. Its about money. Population controls must be institututed to care for the balance of the ecoystyem, before they start to starve to death again and rot on the rocks for your view and stench. Look under the sea and see the truth.— January 19, 2014 9:24 a.m.