Land Movement in Palos Verdes Creates a New Beach and Uncovers Fossils in Stretch of Shoreline

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I have been a lifelong native of Palos Verdes and visited Portuguese Bend Beach Club since the 1980’s. in the 1950’s while cutting the road for Crenshaw to come down the backside of the hill to PVDS a natural spring was ruptured which started the land movement. Before 2020 this land had moved approximately 600 feet and many homes were not on their land anymore. The entire area had been moving as well as PVDS which is constantly under repair.

The City of RPV has several zones within the Portuguese Bend are and many have had a “moritorium” for building. There was a lawsuit where several homeowners proved that their land was not moving and were granted the ability to build known as the Monk lots which was finally approved in 2009.

From https://casetext.com/case/monks-v-city-of-rancho-palos-verdes-1 On September 15, 2009, the city council adopted Ordinance 498, which established a new exception to the 1978 moratorium, allowing plaintiffs to develop their 16 lots. Section 8 of the ordinance set forth the application process: a signed “Landslide Moratorium Exception” (LME) application submitted to the director of planning, building, and code enforcement; a letter setting forth the reason for the request and a full description of the project; a site plan; a grading plan (if grading was proposed); geological, geotechnical, soils, and other reports required by the city to demonstrate that the proposed project would not aggravate the existing situation; and an application fee. Ordinance 498 took effect on October 15, 2009.

Many of the Monk lots have been built and some of those homes are curently on the market for sale. https://youtu.be/Wow9_0chU5Q?si=PjI895u0f97pFgVl

There are some other truly amazing properties for sale in this area. https://youtu.be/Y48ruJqf1Tw?si=svxZS97MuB8HmZrt

The moritorium is now back in place for Portuguese Bend and some surrounding area’s as the heavy rainfall in the last two years has activated the slide and its moving more now than ever before and expanded to include the Seaview neighborhood to the South and Wayfarers Chappel to the North. There are a few area’s that are moving nearly an inch a day. There is one spot between the Limetree and Narcissa gate that was always called the “ski jump” that is the most visible movement in the area and will crack and change just days after being repaved.

Down at the beach club, there is a brand new reef emerging out of the ocean. This was underwater six months ago and lots of bentonite is rising along the coastline. There is a brand new sandy beach in this area along with a reef out into the ocean. Also, the paddle tennis courts have been removed and the volleyball court was moved as that stretch of beach has risen nearly 20 feet which historically was all flat. Its incredible and still moving daily.

Check out this Great post from Steve Shriver posted in the Palos Verdes California Historical Group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/755342714671521/posts/1774287262777056/?paipv=0&eav=Afa03scx3eKhOhPfSoRUeZz3fWKYjPSFx6LSvXQu55Wbr9cRhex60KM0c3-mqKboa_Y&_rdr

Steve was in the video talking about the fossils as well as Joe Cocke who is a local fossil finder – check out his book Fossils of Palos Verdes Hills.

I really love exploring in this area and very grateful that its close to home. I hope that no homes are lost and the slide can be controlled- we will see…

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Here are some homes for sale, and sold in the Portuguese Bend Area.

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