Batiquitos Lagoon
* The city of Carlsbad plans to dredge out Batiquitos Lagoon so that salt water can run in. This will earn mitigation credits for the Port of Los Angeles, allowing it to fill in salt-water acreage in San Pedro Bay. The Port of Los Angeles will pay for the dredging and will shower its gratitude on the officials and staff of Carlsbad.
When it’s done, Batiquitos Lagoon will be a salt-water bay, tidally flushed twice a day. Residents will schedule their parties, and Realtors their appointments, at high tide to avoid the low-tide mud flats. Fresh water vegetation and benthic species will be gone, along with resident and migratory birds dependent upon them. Batiquitos will be added to the list of extinct fresh-water lagoons destroyed forever by corporate greed, political ambition and public apathy.
This plan is called, shamelessly, the Batiquitos Lagoon Enhancement Plan.
RICHARD YODER
Carlsbad
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