PHOTOS: At Surfers Point, bad tidings from a rising sea

People take a morning walk past temporary dunes created by construction at Surfers Point. Ventura’s “managed retreat” strategy could be a model for threatened sites along the coast.
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Workers spray pressurized water on a cobblestone bed being installed to deal with the encroaching sea. In California, the ocean is projected to rise as much as 55 inches by the end of the century, a report says.
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Andrew Cross, left, Dominick Bei, Kevin Nestor, Chris Berry and Jason Frebe, all of them with the Santa Monica Fire Department, depart after a morning wave-riding session in perfect weather at Ventura’s famed Surfers Point break.
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Kevin Nestor, right, helps steady Jason Frebe as the pair ride the waves at Surfers Point. Ventura officials first knew they had a problem about two decades ago, when storms started chewing away at the oceanfront bike path a few years after it was built.
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Kevin Nestor, left, Dominick Bei and Chris Berry get ready to hit the waves at Surfers Point.
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Jacob Alexander, 13, of Camarillo treads carefully on the rocks after a session at Surfers Point. “Managed retreat .. is one of the things that we’re going to have in our quiver to deal with sea-level rise and increasing storms,” said Sam Schuchat, executive director of the California Coastal Conservancy.
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Surfer Bill Barnes, 57, of Santa Clarita maneuvers around barricades warning of an eroded pathway at Surfers Point.
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Michael Farmer of Ventura takes Casey on a morning walk past construction at Surfers Point. “This is nice to see,” said Farmer, who has surfed here since the late 1960s.
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Joe Alexander of Camarillo points out wave action at Surfers Point to neighbor Nicholas Coletti, 13, whom he brought to surf with his own son Jacob. The construction project is expected to give the wave-ravaged site 50 more years of life.
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Paul Jenkin, Ventura campaign manager for the Surfrider Foundation, walks past earth-moving equipment along the temporary pathway at Surfers Point. “There’s the old-school mentality that when nature threatens you, you fight back,” he said. “So this idea of retreating and moving back was really quite a radical proposition.”
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