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deliveries to the site. This boat would be anchored just offshore while the load of sand is delivered via
pipeline to the site. If the cutterhead dredge is used, delivery would be made entirely via pipeline.
Construction lights would be placed at the work place to allow for construction after daylight hours. Under
this construction scenario, activity and associated lighting could occur anytime within a 24-hour period.
The City of Oceanside has a Light Pollution Ordinance (Ordinance No. 091-46) which prohibits certain
types of outdoor lights and restricts outdoor lighting between 11:00 p.m. and sunrise. The intent of this
ordinance is to support Palomar Observatory by restricting certain light fixtures which emit undesirable light
rays into the night sky. There are exemptions for various activities and types of lighting. One exemption
allows outdoor facilities to remain illuminated to complete specific organized activities that are in progress
and under illumination at 11:00 p.m. The proposed construction lighting would be short-term in nature and
exempt.
The proposed action is anticipated to take up to 30 days at the South Oceanside receiver site. Sand
placement operations during this time would degrade existing coastal views in the area. Residents along the
site and users of Buccaneer Beach Park would have clear views of the activity when the sand placement
would occur near those specific uses. More distant views would be available for persons using the pier
or the Strand. Sand placement would not affect the entire length of the receiver site for the 30-day
construction period. Instead, approximately 175 linear feet would be affected in any one day. Sand
placement activities at the southern end of the receiver site would be over one mile from the Strand and
about 2,000 feet from Buccaneer Beach which would reduce the visual contrast of the action for those
viewers. The overall contrast of the action at a specific land use or individual sensitive viewer would vary
over time because the construction activities would be continually moving along the site length.
Subsequent to beach replenishment operations, the receiver site beach would be enhanced. Sand
replenishment would widen the existing beach, thereby eliminating views of the eroded beach area south
of Wisconsin Street. Operations would be short-term overall and the daily construction area would travel
down the beach which would reduce the visual contrast to any one sensitive viewer. The end result would
be enhancement of this important resource, and visual impacts would be considered less than significant.
Core samples have been taken from borrow site SO-9 which would supply the material for this receiver
site (Sea Surveyor 1999). The beach fill material from this borrow sites will likely be slightly darker in color
than existing beach sand due to organic materials in the sediment. As is typical in beach nourishment
projects, the material would be washed and reworked by waves, bleached under exposure to the sun, and
mixed with existing sand. Any discoloration of the sediment would be short-term (USACOE 1984) and
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