Broad Beach sand project

Joe Dombroski of Canoga Park fishes off public access stairs during high tide at Broad Beach in Malibu. The beach has eroded to a dangerous degree. To protect their properties, residents have piled sandbags and, more recently, built an emergency rock wall to hold back the tides.

(Christina House / For The Times)

Oct. 21, 2015 6:06 PM PT

Contractor Alex Peris applies a coat of plaster to a support column of a home at Broad Beach after it suffered water damage.

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Kiana Ayati, 20, left, and Chris Brodbeck, 21, of Calabasas, practice yoga at Broad Beach.

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High tide at Broad Beach in Malibu is photographed on a March Sunday in 2013.

(Christina House / For The Times)

Malibu’s Broad Beach could once again live up to its name under a sand replenishment project to be funded by property owners.

(Michael Robinson Chávez / Los Angeles Times)

Wini Lumsden of Broad Beach, Malibu, stands next to a rock revetment designed to protect her home from water damage. A sand replenishment project will create 50 to 60 feet of restored dune over the revetment and 60 to 70 feet of restored beach.

(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)