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Staff urges reinstating dozer sand-redistribution program to protect Carmel shoreline; rental considered as near-term option
Summary
Public Works presented the city's history of dozer-based beach sand redistribution, said full dozer operations stopped about 2015 and spot repairs have continued with a compact track loader, and recommended reinstating regular redistribution (ideally twice-yearly) if budgeted; staff said renting a dozer is possible while engineering designs for shoreline repairs continue.
Rob Culver, a Public Works presenter, told the Forest and Beach Commission on March 12 that Carmel-by-the-Sea relied on heavy dozers to push sand up the beach from the 1960s through about 2015, and that the city has since used compact tracked loaders for spot repairs.
"We used heavy equipment dozers to redistribute sand on the beach since the early 1960s," Culver said, describing pre-2015 practice. He said the compact loader purchased more recently can move roughly half a cubic yard per pass versus a dozer's capacity of 10 to 15 cubic yards, limiting staff to addressing hotspots rather than the whole shoreline. Culver…
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