revetment

Jonathan Borrego, Oceanside’s deputy city manager, said city law written in the 1980s allows property owners to do certain types of repair work to their boulder walls – called revetments – without having to get a coastal development permit.

So we have a history of allowing homeowners to essentially make repairs to their revetment as long as they’re following certain guidelines.

It’s not legal, for instance, to pour concrete between the boulders of a revetment, yet concrete-reinforced boulder walls are a common sight along the beach.

Borrego estimates homeowners now submit about six requests for revetment repair a year, which is “a lot from a historical standpoint,” he said.

In a March 3 email to the Coastal Commission, Oceanside principal planner Russ Cunningham said the city OK’d repair to a revetment, or boulder wall, and adding sand to the beach in the 1200 block of South Pacific Street.

The best arrangement, which is ascribed to Albert Drer, was the “counter-arched revetment.”

The section through the face of the bastion shows a demi-revetment with wide berm, and a hedge as an additional obstacle.

The escarp is falling into disfavour, on account of the great expense of a revetment that can withstand breaching fire.

The revetment differed mainly in the care which had been bestowed upon it, and consisted mostly of reeds, grass, &c.

The marble revetment of the narthex is a splendid specimen of that style of decoration.