The recent land movement has led to Rancho Palos Verdes residents seeing a new coastline.
In the next two months, Rancho Palos Verdes city officials hope to have a major multi-million dollar project underway to slow the landslide that's been so challenging to this community and now moving faster than ever toward the ocean.Geologists say the coastline along Rancho Palos Verdes is changing. There's new shoreline where the sea-level is meeting the land."It's just rocks coming out of the water," said geologist Mike Phipps.
What they do is called dewatering which is to remove the water either from within or underneath the landslide mass, which is about 150 to 200 feet deep, and it’s like a big bathtub."It’s full of water within the landslide and it’s believed there is water underneath the landslide down in the beach area pushing up on the landslide," Phipps said.City Manager Ara Mihranian says the goal is to try to remove that water and, which is not cheap. But the movement can be destructive, he said.
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