SANDAG is proposing a $500,000 study, in preparation for another massive sand replenishment in 2010. They want each beach city to fund a proportional share of the cost of the study.
Some cities are resisting because of their disappointments with the results of the 2001 beach-sand effort. Many of the beaches, that were widened in 2001, are back to narrow strips. Proponents of the new project suggest that the sand simply moved from the beaches to off-shore sand bars; and that another project would eventually cause the sand movement to "fill up" and reach equilibrium. More pessimist persons point to the long-shore currents that move sand from beaches down into the deep submarine canyons in the ocean.
