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Find an array of environmental and science based lesson plans, activities and ideas below from EPA, other federal agencies and external organizations.  ​ Encontrar recursos para estudiantes y maestros.

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Acid Rain: A Teacher's Guide   (PDF 56 pp, 4.6 MB) Lesson plan and activities from EPA for teachers on acid rain. Grades: 6-8 Type of Resource: Lesson plan

Acid Rain Student Pages Find the acid rain student pages, as well as general information for older students or adults. Grades: K-12 Type of Resource: Lesson plans and experiments

AIRNOW Get up-to-the-minute information about air pollution in your community, through a joint project from EPA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Park Service and other partners. The AIRNOW website includes maps, forecasts, and information about the health effects of air pollution. Grades: 9-12 Type of Resource: Website

AIRNOW Air Quality Resources  Find air quality curriculum materials and activities from AIRNOW, including a toolkit and workshop opportunities for teachers. Grades: K-8 Type of Resource: Curriculum guide

Measuring Air Quality Improvements from Vegetative Barriers This unit has been designed by EPA as a teaching aid on the topic of air quality; particularly, investigating the role vegetative barriers play in improving air quality for surrounding areas. Grades: K-5 Type of Resource: Lesson Plan

Carl Gets Some Rest (PDF 12 pp, 765 KB) This EPA coloring and story book, for children in pre-school through 2nd grade, teaches a simple lesson: there are many transportation alternatives to using a car. Grades: K-2 Type of Resource: Coloring Book

Creating Healthy Indoor Air Quality in Schools This EPA page provides information on indoor air quality in school buildings and how to order the Tools for Schools Action Kit. The kit shows how to carry out a practical plan of action to improve indoor air quality at little or no cost using common-sense activities and in-house staff. Grades: K-12 Type of Resource: Toolkit

EnviroAtlas Educational Materials These ready-made lesson plans can be used in formal and informal education settings and are aligned with Next Generation and State Science Standards. Grades: K-12 Type of Resource: Lesson Plans

Noise Pollution for Kids   (PDF 15 pp, 6.54 MB) This EPA booklet for your students will teach you how to identify which sounds are loud and ways to protect your hearing and health. Grades: K-5 Type of Resource: Activity book

Particulate Matter (PM) Air Sensor Kits Particle pollution known as particulate matter (PM) is one of the major air pollutants regulated by EPA to protect public health and the environment. A PM air sensor kit has been developed by EPA researchers as an educational tool to teach children about air quality and air science. Grades: 5-12 Type of Resource: Hands-on activity guide

Basic Ozone Layer Science Find a straightforward explanation of the ozone layer and ozone depletion. Grades: 9-12 Type of Resource: Website

AIRNOW's Ozone: Good Up High, Bad Nearby (PDF 4 pp) Ozone acts as a protective layer high above the Earth, but it can be harmful to breathe. This publication provides basic information about ground-level and high-altitude ozone. Grades:6-12 Type of Resource: Booklet/Brochure

Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act A brief introduction to the 1990 version of the Clean Air Act, to help you understand what is in the law and how it may affect you. Grades: 9-12 Type of Resource: Booklet

RadTown USA EPA's RadTown USA is a virtual community that aims to educate students about the sources of radiation in our daily lives. Grades: 9-12 Type of Resource: Virtual activity

Teaching Kids to Conserve Energy at Home: Resources for K-12 teachers and parents This 11-minute presentation focuses on an introduction to energy and the environment, energy saving tips, how to use the Energy Star home energy yardstick, and homework ideas. Grades: K-12 Type of Resource: Video

Village Green Project These lessons provide a unique opportunity for students to learn about air quality as it relates to various topics of science appropriate to their grade level. The purpose of these lessons is to engage students of varying ability levels through hands-on and minds-on thinking. Each lesson is designed to focus around the topic of air quality; from issues of human health to career and 21st century skills. Grades: K-8 Type of Resource: Lesson Plan (PDF)  (52 pp)

Lea en español:  ¿Por qué Coco es de color naranja?

Why is Coco Orange? Coco has a problem. He is a chameleon, but he cannot change colors, and his asthma is acting up. Read how Coco and his friends at Lizard Lick Elementary solve this mystery as they learn about air quality and how to stay healthy when the air quality is bad. Grades: Pre K-2 Type of Resource: Book

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NOAA's Education Resources Website Explore this site to find the information you need to teach students about weather, climate change, and oceans. You'll find activities, background information, and much more! Grades: 6-12

National Park Service Education Resources Classroom materials, field trip opportunities and professional development programs for educators from the National Park Service. Grades: All

Climate and Health Lesson Plan and Toolkit by The American Public Health Association This lesson adopts materials developed by the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIH) to make it easy for public health professionals to guest teach at local high schools. For more resources aimed directly at teachers, see Climate Change and Human Health Lesson Plans by NIH. Grades: 9-12

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Welcome to the environment and nature part of the site. these are nice topics to include in your esl lessons whether you use them as discussion topics or as themes for worksheets. with 315 worksheets to choose from, there is bound to be something your students will enjoy. this worksheet is great for practicing numbers and certain animals. the description for the worksheet even mentions that you will need to introduce the word endangered to students and that for an extra activity, you can practice using there is and there are. this activity was created for beginners but there are worksheets for students of every level. there are a lot of word searches available as well as projects and some discussion topics. this is a great discussion topic, especially with intermediate and advanced students, because there are many related tangents you can choose from such as recycling and global warming. these are very important, modern issues that people should be more aware of. of course these are also appropriate topics for young learners who are curious about the world around them. the material for these lessons would obviously be more basic but you could still introduce topics like recycling since they are probably already aware of its importance. read more... ...less.

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Environmental issues listening/speaking vocabulary exercises

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1 Decarbonization – vocabulary and listening/speaking

This is one of the most pressing topics of the 2020s! It’s a little more advanced than other exercises on this page, but it’s very interesting.

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2 Elements of the contemporary environment listening/speaking and vocabulary exercise ( with audio and answers)

The exercise below is for introducing and exploring academic vocabulary for environmental issues in the classroom. First, students listen to the audio and match the items to the pictures. Then they match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they answer the questions.

Contemporary environment listening/speaking and vocabulary exercise

Elements of the contemporary environment (PDF)

 3 Describing  environmental issues listening/vocabulary exercise (with audio and  answers)

         The exercise below is for discussing and describing environmental issues in the classroom.  Students  listen to the  audio and complete the sentences. 

Describing environmental issues (PDF)

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4 Environmental issues  cause/effect worksheet (with audio and suggested answers)

         The listening/speaking exercise below is for discussing environmental issues in the classroom. Students have to try and describe the problem depicted in each picture and suggest  causes. effects and possible solutions to each problem. Students can listen to the audio before or after filling in the worksheet, depending on the level of their language skills.

Environmental issues  cause/effect worksheet)

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5 Environmental issues vocabulary & speaking exercise

  Another exercise  for environmental issues ….. a teacher may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss environmental issues. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner.

Environmental issues vocabulary and speaking activity (PDF)

6 Brainstorming environmental Issues

The exercise below is for exploring the language of environmental issues in the classroom. It is a good way to guage the level of knowledge about environmental issues. This activity works really well as  an individual orclass activity. While students work independently the teacher can walk around and choose some of the best ideas and write them on the the brainstorming diagram (which they have already drawn) on the board. This activity should be casual and collaborative.

Brainstorming  environmental issues (PDF)

7 Endangered species vocabulary & speaking

  The exercise below is for introducing and exploring language for endangered species in the classroom.  A  teacher  may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can match the vocabulary to the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss endangered animals. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner. 

Endangered species speaking activity (PDF)

8 Dictation exercise for endangered species

This worksheet introduces English language learners to commonly used language for endangered species. For instructions download and read the PDF.

Endangered species vocabulary activity (PDF)

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9 Natural disasters vocabulary & speaking exercise

  The exercise below is for introducing and exploring language for natural disasters in the classroom. A teacher may ask students to work in pairs, groups, or as a class. First, students can identify the natural disasters depicted in the pictures. Then they can use the conversation cues at the bottom of the worksheet to discuss natural disasters. If they are weak, they should try and write a conversation before they practice with a partner. This exercise helps familiarize the students with the vocabulary of natural disasters in English.

Natural disasters vocabulary and speaking activity (PDF)

10 Vocabulary  for the  weather

             This is a   worksheet to introduce English language learners to  commonly used language for the weather.   

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Plastic bag bans have spread across the country. Sometimes they backfire.

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The idea is simple: Reduce plastic waste by requiring shoppers to bring their own reusable bags.

The reality is messy. Plastic bag bans have spread across the nation, but some data suggests that switching to more durable, multi-use bags creates some new problems – and in some cases means more, not less, plastic being used.

Given how few single-use plastic bags are recycled – just 13% – cutting plastic bag use could have a big environmental impact.

Now the nation is split on what to do: Strengthen bans or oppose them entirely. Some areas are closing loopholes and making rules stricter — Last week legislation was introduced in California to double down on bans. Meanwhile, 20 states have banned the bans.

What prompted plastic bag bans in the first place?

It’s all about a fight over plastic pollution , a problem that’s grown to epic proportions since the 1950s.

Thin, single-use plastic bags were first developed in the 1960s in Europe. They only appeared in U.S. grocery stores in 1979 , edging out paper bags because they were significantly cheaper for grocers. By the 2000s they were everywhere, including in the landscape, harming marine animals when they got in waterways.

Every material has an environmental impact but plastic is especially problematic, said Shelie Miller, professor of sustainable systems at the School for Environment Sustainability at the University of Michigan.

“It doesn’t break down in the environment and can cause significant ecological damage,” she said.

“When a plastic bag escapes into the environment, animals can see it as a food source and ingest it, it can cause entrapment and entanglement and there’s lots of questions about microplastics in the environment,” she said.

Concerned about the growing plastic pollution problem, the first non-compostable plastic bag ban went into effect in San Francisco in 2007 . A California-wide law followed in 2016 .

By 2023, California, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maine, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Vermont and Washington all had some form of statewide ban on single-use plastic bags. Colorado and Rhode Island were added to the list this year. About 500 cities and towns also have ordinances.

But there has been a backlash as well. As many as 20 states have passed laws banning any plastic bag bans at all, under the argument that they preempt local control. The conservative American Legislative Exchange Council created a model bill for preemptively banning such bans in 2015 .

Bans work, but not perfectly

Where they’re in place, the bans typically help but aren’t as successful as proponents had hoped, in part because of compromises written into the laws to make them palatable to shoppers and the plastics industry.

Which isn’t to say they don’t work. Areas with bans can eliminate almost 300 single-use plastic bags per person per year according to a study released last month by Environment America .

According to the report, bans in five states and cities covering 12 million people have cut single-use plastic bag consumption by about 6 billion bags per year.

In the six months after California passed its bag ban, which ended handing out thin plastic bags for free and required grocers to charge for paper and thicker plastic bags, there was an 85% reduction in the number of plastic bags to customers and 61% in paper bags, according to a 2019 report to the legislature on the program.

But the bans haven’t entirely dealt with the problem. In some places with bans, the amount of plastic bag waste is actually increasing.

In California for example, this happens because of what politicians are calling a "loophole" in the original bill, which allowed the sale of thicker, reusable plastic bags at the checkout stand.

“The plastics industry has figured out a way of producing and selling bags in places where there are these bans,” said Celeste Meiffren-Swango. She is co-author of an Environment America report on plastic bag bans published last month.

What seems to happen is that many consumers simply treat the thicker bags, which were designed to be reused, as just as disposable as the thin film bags that were available before.

A bag that’s double the weight “has double the impact, unless it is reused more times or used to carry more goods,” a major United Nations environmental report on plastic bags noted.

In New Jersey, a study funded by plastic bag manufacturers found that while the number of single-use plastic bags sold declined by 60% after a bag ban went into effect in 2015, the number of alternative plastic bags, including the stiffer rectangular kind with handles that are often sold at grocery stores at checkout now, increased.

The same thing has happened in California. The year its bag ban was passed, Californians threw away 157,385 tons of plastic bags. In 2022 that had increased to 231,072 tons, according to the report.

A new California law, proposed last week, would eliminate the option of getting the thicker, theoretically renewable, bags at stores. Instead, stores can sell 100% recycled plastic bags or let consumers use reusable bags.

Is that reusable bag good for the planet? Depends on how many times you reuse it.

Research by the United Nations Environment Program shows that simply reusing bags enough times significantly lowers their environmental impact.

It doesn’t take a lot. “If a bag is used for shopping twice instead of once, it has only half the environmental impact per shopping round,” the UN report said.

  • 4-8 times for paper bags
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“We want customers to buy a set of reusable bags and just use them until they fall apart," said Miller.

Sometimes you don’t need a bag at all, said Meiffren-Swango.

“If I stop in at the grocery store and forgot my reusable bags, which I’ll admit happens relatively often, and I’m just grabbing a few things, I’ll say no bag for me and just carry my groceries to my car,” she said. “I’ve even heard of people who take their grocery cart to their car and put them in the trunk.”

Another endangered whale was found dead off East Coast. This one died after colliding with a ship

Federal authorities said the second critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead in the last month showed injuries consistent with a collision with a ship

Federal authorities said the second critically endangered North Atlantic right whale found dead in the last month showed injuries consistent with a collision with a ship.

The whales number less than 360 and they have experienced decline in recent years. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it was notified of a dead right whale floating off Savannah, Georgia, on Feb. 13.

The agency said late Friday that a necropsy of the animal “found evidence of blunt force trauma including fractures of the skull” and that those “injuries are consistent with a vessel strike prior to death.” The announcement came just days after NOAA released more details about a dead right whale off Massachusetts that showed signs of entanglement in fishing gear, which is the other major threat the animals face.

The back-to-back deaths of the rare whales that both showed evidence of the species' two major threats should motivate rule changes, numerous environmental groups said Saturday. The groups have long pushed for stricter rules governing shipping and commercial fishing to help protect the whales.

“The North Atlantic right whale’s nursery is becoming a crime scene," said Greg Reilly, southeast marine campaigner for International Fund for Animal Welfare. "Without enhanced protections, the North Atlantic right whale is doomed to extinction. Lawmakers need to get out of the way and let the administration finalize the amended vessel speed rule.”

NOAA has proposed new vessel speed rules to try to protect whales, but they have yet to go into effect. Environmental groups have sued to try to force a deadline for the new rules. New fishing standards designed to protect the whales from entanglement in rope are also the subject of ongoing lawsuits involving environmentalists, fishing groups and the federal government.

The whale that died off Massachusetts that was found in January showed signs of entanglement in fishing lines that originated in the Maine lobster fishery, NOAA said this week. Entanglement of whales in Maine rope is very rare, said Kevin Kelley, a spokesperson for the Maine Lobstermen's Association.

“Maine lobstermen have made significant changes to how they fish over the last 25 years to avoid entanglement and continue gear testing,” he said.

The right whales were once abundant off the East Coast, but they were decimated during the commercial whaling era and have been slow to recover. The whales migrate from the waters off Florida and Georgia to New England every year and face hazards like collisions and entanglement along the way. Some scientists have said warming ocean waters has caused them to stray from protected zones during the journey.

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To Save San Francisco, a Democrat Wants to Scrap Environmental Reviews

State Senator Scott Wiener hopes to spur redevelopment in the struggling downtown core by eliminating a major environmental hurdle.

A bus pulls up to a stop in downtown San Francisco at night. More than a dozen people are standing and waiting.

By Heather Knight

Reporting from San Francisco

Not long ago, it would have sounded preposterous: a San Francisco Democrat asking to peel back California’s treasured environmental protections in the heart of the city.

It would have been like painting the Golden Gate Bridge gray or cheering on the Los Angeles Dodgers. It just would not have flown.

But as California grows more desperate for housing and San Francisco struggles to revive its city core, State Senator Scott Wiener says one thing must go: environmental review.

Mr. Wiener on Friday will propose one of the broadest rollbacks of the once-vaunted California Environmental Quality Act by asking the state legislature to allow most projects in downtown San Francisco to bypass the law for the next decade.

Empty buildings could more easily be demolished to build theaters, museums or college campuses, Mr. Wiener said. Office towers could more readily be converted to a wide variety of housing. The withering mall on Market Street could more quickly become something else — like the soccer stadium that Mayor London Breed has envisioned.

“We know we need to make downtown viable,” Ms. Breed, a sponsor of the bill, said. “We can’t let process get in the way.”

For decades, Democrats in the mold of Mr. Wiener and Ms. Breed were among the most ardent defenders of CEQA, a landmark law signed in 1970, months after the celebration of the first Earth Day. But in recent years, a growing number of Democrats have begrudged the environmental act as a barrier to the projects they want, from infill housing to solar farms. Gov. Gavin Newsom is among its critics, last year urging the legislature to revamp portions of the law so California could “build, build, build.”

When CEQA (pronounced “see-qua”) was enacted, it gave residents a new way to challenge government projects during a building boom that followed World War II, as freeways were cutting through pastures and neighborhoods and as rivers were being dammed.

The California Supreme Court broadened the law in 1972 and said it could apply to almost any project in the state. That opened the door for environmentalists to challenge suburban developments and polluting factories, but also gave anyone with a grievance the ability to slow or kill projects. CEQA can force layers of review, litigation costs and years of delay, enough to render construction infeasible.

The law is hardly all that stands in the way of San Francisco and its downtown prosperity — 35 percent of office space remains empty four years after the onset of the pandemic. But there are glaring examples of how the environmental act has been used to try to block projects including food pantries and testing sites for Covid-19.

“We’ve had bike lanes stopped by CEQA. It’s crazy,” said Jim Wunderman, chief executive of the Bay Area Council, a business-friendly public policy group.

In one high-profile case, a nonprofit that owns and operates affordable housing used the state law in 2022 to argue that a plan to build hundreds of apartments on an empty Nordstrom parking lot would gentrify a neighborhood in downtown San Francisco — a socioeconomic argument that has gained traction in recent years. The Board of Supervisors sided with the nonprofit and asked for more environmental review.

“In this beautiful concrete jungle of downtown San Francisco, should environmental review operate that way?” Mr. Wiener asked as he walked through the Financial District, which was dotted with retail vacancies and “For Rent” signs.

Mr. Wiener has already pushed changes through the State Legislature to ease regulations on development, particularly for housing. He wrote legislation in 2017 that accelerated construction of affordable housing in cities that were not keeping up with state-issued housing targets and pushed for some transit projects and certain infill housing developments to be exempted from CEQA. And state lawmakers for years have sped review for major downtown stadium projects, including the Chase Center in San Francisco and SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, Calif.

But exempting such a wide section — 150 blocks — of a city from environmental review would be a first.

Under Mr. Wiener’s proposal, San Francisco officials wouldn’t spend a year or more analyzing the environmental impacts of each redevelopment project, one by one, and average citizens wouldn’t have the right to sue to halt them.

To Mr. Wiener, this is the definition of environmentalism in today’s California, a state experiencing a lack of housing and growing homelessness in an era of climate change.

California environmentalism used to focus on preserving animal habitats, open space and beaches — and fighting developers at all cost. But Mr. Wiener argues that adding dense housing near jobs and public transit should be at the heart of the environmental movement. He and other Democrats have said that infill housing will cut down on hourslong car commutes and prevent additional sprawl.

A wholesale exemption for downtown San Francisco will undoubtedly face opposition at home and the State Capitol. Mr. Wiener’s proposal to accelerate development near transit stops, overriding local zoning laws, died in the legislature several years ago after a tough fight. At the time, local governments and low-income Californians argued that Mr. Wiener’s proposal would push existing renters to cheaper outskirts while benefiting developers and more affluent tenants.

A similar argument is likely this year. Paul Boden, executive director of the Western Regional Advocacy Project, which aims to eliminate homelessness and poverty, said the proposal seemed to be a giveaway to developers and could further push the poorest workers out of the city.

Some environmentalists may side with Mr. Wiener. Jake Mackenzie, a board member of the Greenbelt Alliance, said he would much prefer infill development over projects like California Forever, a plan by tech titans to build a new town on farmland about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco.

But others will very likely look askance at granting such a sweeping waiver of the state’s landmark environmental law.

David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, said his group was one of the first backers of Mr. Wiener’s proposals to stimulate housing construction near transit. But he added that Mr. Wiener’s new plan sounded “pretty extreme.”

He agreed with critics who say that environmentalists and other opponents of development have abused state laws. But he said that environmental review was important, observing that construction projects can create a lot of noise, pollute the air or cause traffic jams — and it would be important to know those harmful effects beforehand.

“People in government make smarter decisions when the public has more information, and that’s what’s at the heart of CEQA,” he said. “Exempting major projects from analysis is not the answer.”

Still, Mr. Wiener could find support from powerful labor allies, who have found themselves increasingly opposed to environmentalists in California. The bill being introduced Friday would waive environmental review for only projects that pay a prevailing wage, generally a rate negotiated by unions. It would still require environmental review for hotels and waterfront property, as well as for the demolition of any building that housed tenants within the past decade.

Mr. Wiener says that San Francisco is in dire need of a change. The California law gives local governments some leeway in how they apply CEQA, and San Francisco has long given more credence than other cities to development critics. A top state housing official denounced the city’s roadblocks to housing construction as “egregious” last year.

Mr. Wiener said exempting almost all projects downtown for a decade was necessary because many of the potential solutions for reviving the area — like a new college campus, student dorms, theaters, museums or artificial intelligence or biotech hubs — could otherwise be stalled.

After a strong rebuke from the state, San Francisco eventually approved the Nordstrom parking lot project. But the developer, Lou Vasquez, said it no longer pencils out financially after so much delay.

“It remains a parking lot,” he said. The Nordstrom no longer exists, either.

Heather Knight is a reporter in San Francisco, leading The Times’s coverage of the Bay Area and Northern California. More about Heather Knight

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Millions of dollars are being spent to add sand to local beaches – but a new study suggests technology can give a better understanding of how sand moves, offering data decision-makers could use in planning how to fix the eroding coastline.

A new paper published recently by UC Irvine researchers in the Coastal Engineering Journal analyzed beaches between Long Beach and La Jolla, offering new data and methods that can be used to figure out the most vulnerable areas of coastline and whether those beaches are suitable for the mega, costly projects often turned toward for trying to replenish and retain sand.

Sand retention groin jetties north of the Newport Pier in...

Sand retention groin jetties north of the Newport Pier in Newport Beach, CA, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The groin jetties in West Newport – eight piles of rocks sticking out like fingers into the ocean – were put in place in the 1960s to keep sand from being chopped away and shifting down coast during big winter storms. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers works on a $23 million sand replenishment project at Surfside beach in Seal Beach at the top of the photo. Below, in Huntington Beach, a winter sand berm protects homes on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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The U. S. Army Corps of Engineers works on a $23 million sand replenishment project at Surfside beach in Seal Beach, CA, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024. The project will dredge and place 1.1 million cubic yards of sand there. It’s a project done periodically since the 1960s.(Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG)

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The study comes as coastal cities across the state are grappling with eroding beaches, due in part to human development that has impacted natural sand supply but also rising sea levels and climate change.

Because shrinking sand impacts everything from recreation, public access, infrastructure and the economy, decision-makers are searching for solutions – historically, major sand replenishment projects have moved at a snail’s pace, taking years and even decades to get through permitting and secure government funding.

“I’m really excited to have the resources that help, potentially, inform these decisions,” said Daniel Kahl, UCI researcher and lead author of the paper. “It can help us inform where nourishments will be most beneficial and where they won’t be the best.”

The researchers used satellite imagery dating back nearly 20 years and wave data from that same period from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in San Diego to analyze “longshore transport,” which is wave-driven movement of sand along the coast, the pathway that shows which direction sand will be redistributed.

Their paper also analyzed “divergence of drift,” which shows whether sand will accumulate or diminish, based on the movements of sand.

“This method characterizes a process that can help us understand which areas of the beach are susceptible for erosion, but also where beaches might grow if given enough sand,” Kahl said.

The new information could help decision-makers better understand whether areas are “feeder” beaches that contribute to other coastal communities or whether sand stays put.

“It’s more complex than we previously thought,” Kahl said. “Maybe there’s more ideal locations for nourishments based on these sediment pathways we see. And there’s areas where sand won’t accumulate, and maybe that’s not the best location (for a replenishment) and other sites should be considered.”

“The data essentially shows: Where do we get the most bang for our buck when it comes to placing sand on the coast,” said Brett Sanders, UCI civil and environmental engineering professor and co-author of the published paper.

The data showed, for example, that the Surfside beach along Orange County’s northern coast, is an area that suffers from severe erosion – a well-known fact and why the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers is spearheading a $23 million project now underway to dredge and place 1.1 million cubic yards of sand there. It’s a project done periodically since the 1960s.

The project is thought to have regional benefit, with currents expected to spread sand nearly 12 miles to Newport Beach – but the latest data shows that may not be the case, the researchers said.

Sand typically stops in Huntington Beach, part of the reason those beaches have continued to grow over the years at a rate of about 3 feet each year, Sanders said. And sand in West Newport, in turn, travels up the coast to Huntington Beach.

So maybe Newport Beach officials reconsider if it’s worth paying into the pot for that large replenishment project, Sanders said. “This is critical from a management perspective, because it tells us which communities along the coast need to work together on plans to manage the coast.”

Their research also validates the importance of sand retention structures in Newport Beach – groin jetties built in the 1960s to trap sand – and the city’s regular, ongoing efforts to nourish beaches with sand from the Newport Harbor and the Santa Ana River, Sanders said.

San Clemente is a prime candidate for sand replenishment, with the material wanting to stick around, based on the models.

The problem San Clemente is currently facing , however, is actually getting the sand. A $14 million project more than two decades in the making was put on hold a few weeks ago when the dredger ran into trouble sucking up rocks instead of sand at an Oceanside borrow site, with no definitive answer on when that project may get back on track.

Other areas that need immediate attention are Doheny State Beach and San Onofre, shown in one of the research paper’s graphics with bright red coloring, indicating “hot spots” where erosion is occurring at a rapid pace.

Kahl is working on a drone project monitoring a recent small-scale sand project over the summer that involved about 3,000 truckloads of sand dumped on Capistrano Beach and Doheny State Beach, and said those areas hold sand well, according to the data.

The recessed section of coastline in San Clemente, called a bight, from Cotton’s Point in the south up to Dana Point – has good sand retention and is a largely self-contained region from a sand transport perspective, meaning it’s a good candidate for replenishment projects, according to the new paper. Sand near Cotton’s Point wants to move up the coast, while sand near Dana Point tends to move down the coast, the researchers said.

“This also makes the area well-suited for beach nourishment projects as waves will tend to keep the sand within the bight – to the extent possible, before sand is dispersed offshore with large wave events,” Sanders said. “The takeaway here is that fixing beach erosion in the Capistrano bight requires new sand supplies and the waves can do much of the remaining work to spread the sand up and down the coast between the two points.”

That kind of information could impact recent discussions in Dana Point and San Clemente about joining a group of coastal cities in San Diego trying to find regional solutions to sand replenishment, or if funds and efforts would be better spent on locally focused projects.

“If you nourish San Clemente or Doheny, the sand isn’t going to move south and nourish San Onofre,” Kahl said the researchers’ data indicates. “It will stay in that area. It will naturally grow if there’s enough sand.

“Beaches there have been eroding more rapidly in recent decades, and that area is starved of sand,” he said. “If it was given adequate sand supply, our analysis suggests these beaches would be growing.”

The study also maps out other areas rapidly eroding, such as near the Wedge in Newport Beach north of the harbor entrance and several beaches in San Diego, including Del Mar and Encinitas.

“We can see which beaches are being hit the hardest, which are doing better,” Sanders said. “This satellite data will allow us to step back and see these hot spots before they turn into disasters. It could give us the ability to act earlier instead of waiting for beaches to completely disappear.”

Oceanside is an area that doesn’t keep sand well and needs a sand-retention strategy, according to the data.

“Nourishing alone would not be very effective there, that’s what our data shows,” Sanders said. “Waves want to push that sand back up the coast and even back into the harbor. This suggests the need to consider projects that could help to hold sand on the coast.”

The city is working on plans for a “living speed bump” project that would create offshore headlands to retain sand.

“We do need to create an environment where there’s space for innovation,” Sanders said, adding future sea level rise and changes to the frequency  and intensity of storms is expected to put stress on coastlines, especially near urban areas where infrastructure is at risk.

“Communities and governments at every level will be pulled into conversations about ways to manage impacts, including plans for strategic retreat, plans to restore nature-based processes, and plans to nourish beaches,” Sanders said. “Our research reveals an opportunity to make these plans with better data and information, and a better sense for the optimal scale at which to tackle the problem.”

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FILE - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Building is shown in Washington, Sept. 21, 2017. The Biden administration says it's expanding a program to help rural communities with serious sewage problems get technical help to plan improvements and apply for funding. The Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday that 150 more communities will be able to apply for assistance, in addition to 11 chosen in 2022 for a pilot program.(AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Biden administration announced Tuesday that it is expanding a program to help rural communities with serious sewage problems get technical help to plan improvements and apply for funding.

Eleven communities in the South and Southwest were chosen in 2022 for a pilot program, and another 150 will be able to apply for assistance, which will be granted on a rolling basis, said Radhika Fox, assistant administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s water office.

More than 2 million people in the U.S. lack indoor plumbing and more live with failing sewage systems that can result in waste backing up into homes or pooling on the ground, threatening public health and degrading basic dignity, the EPA said.

“For the first time ever, these communities are going to get an assessment about ... what is the status of their wastewater infrastructure. And then they’re going to get a community solutions plan, which will really articulate ... what are the the improve that can be made, in the most cost effective way possible,” Fox said.

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Still, “the water infrastructure gap is is greater than the resources we have,” and the Biden administration will continue to advocate for more funding, she said.

Among the first communities to receive assistance was the San Carlos Apache Reservation in Arizona, where two-thirds of homes have septic systems that often fail. The tribe has received funding to pump septic tanks and develop educational materials, and is applying for funding for infrastructure improvements, Fox said.

The town of White Hall, in Lowndes County, Alabama, has developed wastewater treatment and funding options to address sewage that sometimes ran into yards.

“We’re so thankful for where we are at this particular point,” said Catherine Flowers, founder of the Center for Rural Enterprise and Environmental Justice.

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