San Francisco moving tons of sand on Ocean Beach in response to coastal erosion

The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission announced it will begin moving around sand from the north end of the city’s Ocean Beach to the south end in order to address erosion.

The Ocean Beach Improvement Plan, which launched in November, entails crews excavating a large amount of sand — about 97,500 tons — from the O’Shaughnessy Seawall at Ocean Beach’s northern end and moving it the southern end, just south of Sloat Boulevard.