Sand-Dune Speeding in a Home-Built Sand Rail

Chet Acord is a retired engineer living in Grand Junction, Colorado, an 11-hour drive from this place. He’d towed the dune ...
Orange County Register

Community calls for more sand, less boulders for OCTA’s track protection plans

A community outcry against big boulders being placed on the beach in San Clemente grew louder Thursday evening, with a crowd calling for the use of more sand as a buffer as the Orange County ...
Reuters

CP Rail to ship drilling sand for U.S. Silica

(Reuters) - Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd , Canada's second-biggest railroad, said it signed a multi-year deal with U.S. Silica Holdings Inc to transport drilling sand from the U.S. company's mine in ...
KTLA

First batch of sand arrives to protect vulnerable rail line in Orange County

Orange County crews will begin laying thousands of pounds of sand in San Clemente over the next week as part of an emergency project to protect a vulnerable passenger and freight rail line along the ...
Los Angeles Times

San Clemente readies search for offshore sand as OCTA rail plan gains permit

In dire need of sand to replenish its eroding beaches, San Clemente is on the lookout for nearby offshore deposits to dredge. Coastal Frontiers Corp., a consultant hired last year to carry out a sand ...