ANAHEIM BAY HARBOR, CALIFORNIA 
Anaheim Bay Harbor is located on the Pacific Ocean coast of 
Southern California in Orange County, about h miles southeast of the mouth 
of the Los Angeles River at Long Beach. The adjacent shore communities 
are SealBeach to the west with a population of 3,558 and Surf Side and 
Sunset Beach to the east with a combined pepulation of about 1,550. Orange 
County has a total population of about 214,000. The development of the 
shore communities is principally residential. The beaches are used ex- 
tensively for recreational purposes. 
The Seal Beach shore with a frontage of 6,100 feet is publicly 
owned. Adjacent to the Anaheim Bay east breakwater, there is a Federally 
owned frontage of 900 feet. The remainder of the Surf Side shore, amount- 
ing to 3,200 feet, is privately owned. The Sunset Beach shore, 6,200 
feet in length, is publicly owned. Anaheim Bay has been developed as a 
harbor by the United States Navy. The entrance thereto is protected by 
two converging breakwaters. 
The District and Division Engineers and the Beach Erosion Board con- 
cluded that the most suitable plan of protection of the shore in Orange 
County, California from San Gabriel River to Los Patos Avenue in Sunset 
Beach, comprises artificial placement of approximately 200,000 cubic 
yards of sand on the shore and construction of one groin at Seal Beach, 
and placement of a feeder beach in amount of approximately 1,000,000 
cubic yards of sandat Surf Side. They found that such protection is 
economically justified and recommended Federal protection in an amount 
equal to the portion of the cost applicable to protecting the Federally 
owned frontage plus one-third of the first cost of measures for the 
restoration and protection of the other publicly owned portions of the 
shore in Orange County, California from San Gabriel River tc-Los Patos 
Avenue in Sunset Beach. The estimated first cost and Federal share 
arerespectively for Seal Beach $186,000 and $62,000 and for Surf Side 
and Sunset Beach $300,000 and $86,)00. 
The Chief of Engineers concurred in the views and recommendations of 
the Beach Erosion Board. 
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