Malibu "Lake-goon" 1941

Some in opposition to the Malibu Lagoon Restoration claim that the new lagoon looks like a "lake" and that it has never looked like a "lake" before. They also claim that the breach point was always at the west end of the Lagoon berm. 

Here is a picture in 1941 of the lagoon looking like a "lake" before third point was created 28 years later in the winter floods of 1969.

Notice there is no breach opening in the berm. After the epic floods of 1938, the creek breached at first point for almost ten years continuously. This picture was taken after Pacific Coast Highway was cut through the hill across the street from Surfrider and the Cal Trans clay deposits had already been dumped in the wetlands channels that ran behind the Colony beach sand berm. The creek side channels under the present day Cross Creek Rd. ( for which the road was named ) were also filled in along with the PCH bridge which further impeded the natural flow of the creek into the wetland ecosystem and out to the sea .