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Surfline pitches $200,000 coastal camera system to help lifeguards, monitor sand and inform business planning
Summary
Surfline requested about $200,000 to install ~20–25 federally compliant beach cameras from Swami's north to the Carlsbad border, describing uses for lifeguard coverage, sand-monitoring for resilience projects, and visitor-count data for economic planning.
At the Encinitas budget workshop, Ross Garrett, who identified himself as a long-time Encinitas resident and CEO of Surfline, presented a vendor proposal asking the city to appropriate roughly $200,000 for a coastal intelligence system.
Garrett said the technology would provide near real‑time video, automated sand‑width and usage metrics, and alerts to support marine-safety…
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