Funds Sought to Study a 2nd Bay Opening
Leaders of a private, nonprofit organization exploring the creation of a second channel entrance to San Diego Bay asked a San Diego City Council committee Wednesday for $100,000 to help finance a feasibility study of the project.
The council’s Rules Committee forwarded the request to City Manager John Lockwood’s office for review.
The Second Harbor Entrance Project hopes to determine in the next 15 months whether it is economically and environmentally possible to dig a second entrance to the bay. The 3-year-old organization favors an entrance carved out of the Silver Strand at Emory Basin, near the southern end of the peninsula.
The organization’s chairman, James Fink, said the group hopes to raise $1.2 million for a variety of studies needed to determine whether the project is feasible.
The funding would include $600,000 from the San Diego Unified Port District, $100,000 from the city of San Diego, $200,000 from the state of California, $100,000 from the county of San Diego and other bay cities, and $200,000 from private sources.
To date, $120,000 has been raised from private sources and the cities of Imperial Beach, Chula Vista and National City, Fink said.
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