The removal of the coastal mountain, and the resulting steep grades behind the fisheries center, were permitted by the Coastal Commission. The entire mountainside was carved out and removed by thousands of hours of double-trailer dump trucks that lined up along La Jolla Shores Drive day after day, month after month, removing the mountain so the NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center could be built into the mountainside.
But this same area experienced a remarkable transformation a little over a decade ago. The article stated that according to a staff report associated with the repair project, the slope failure was caused by a water line break in 2018 southwest of La Jolla Shores Drive next to UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography.
The article stated that a caveat of the approval was the protection of birds that nest along the coastline. The erosion likely threatened the stability of the land supporting La Jolla Shores Drive, just above the bend in Scripps Grade where the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Southwest Fisheries Science Center is situated. 15 announced that the Coastal Commission approved repairs to a section of the slope along La Jolla Shores Drive ( “Coastal Commission approves plans to repair slope next to UCSD”). The front page article in the La Jolla Light dated Sept.
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