Executive Summary
Post-Construction Monitoring
The RBSP monitoring program will continue at as many of the existing Navy sites as practicable, while
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verifying no long-term impacts at the locations where this project predicts possible sand deposition. While
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the exact monitoring locations will be finalized in concert with the resource and regulatory agencies,
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tentative locations include Point Loma (control) and Cardiff (test) for rocky intertidal habitat; Cardiff, North
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Carlsbad and Leucadia (test) and one new site north of Table Tops or Swami's (control) for subtidal
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habitat; and a new location off North Carlsbad, Solana Beach/Cardiff, Batiquitos, Moonlight
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Beach/Boneyards (test) and Point Loma, possibly Swami's (control) for kelp habitat. A new transect
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perpendicular to the coast would be implemented at North Carlsbad under subtidal to verify no impacts
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to surfgrass. Current baseline data is available for existing Navy monitoring sites, but where new test and
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control sites would be selected, baseline monitoring would be completed prior to project initiation. Possible
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new sites that would require baseline monitoring include the perpendicular transect at North Carlsbad, the
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selected control site for subtidal habitat, and Batiquitos, Moonlight Beach/Boneyards and North Carlsbad
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test sites for kelp habitat.
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The monitoring program for rocky intertidal habitat would involve periodic checks of fixed plots and fixed
transects to observe identified target species of vegetation, barnacles, and sea stars. Species abundance
would be estimated based on counts and measurements within those fixed sample loc ations. Timed
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