OCEANSIDE, Calif. (FOX 5/KUSI) — A major effort is underway in Oceanside to save one of the city’s defining features, its beaches. Years of coastal erosion have stripped away sand and continue to threaten the shoreline, but a local partnership says they’re fighting back.

The group Save Oceanside Sand is leading a campaign to restore the coastline through a new initiative called the RE:BEACH Project, part of a broader regional effort to make coastal communities more resilient against erosion and sea level rise.

“We are in dire straits for sand,” said Bob Ashton, president and CEO of Save Oceanside Sand. “We haven’t actively managed it. We haven’t aggressively and proactively managed it, and that’s what this project is about.”

The RE:BEACH concept, called Living Speed Bumps, was chosen th

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