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Channel Islands Harbor is a combined shore-protection project〔Herron, William J.; Harris, Robert L. (1966) (LITTORAL BYPASSING AND BEACH RESTORATION IN THE VICINITY OF FORT HUENEME CALIFORNIA ) ''Proceedings of 10th Conference on Coastal Engineering,'' Tokyo, Japan〕 and small craft harbor located at the southern end of the Santa Barbara Channel in Oxnard, California. It is the fifth largest harbor for small-craft recreation in the state of California and is a waterfront resort, recreation, and dining marketplace. Recreational activities include diving, boat charters, sea kayaking, sportfishing, and whale watching (gray whales January through early April; blue and humpback whales July to September). The horse-shoe shaped harbor contains of water surrounded by of land and supports more than 2,500 vessels,〔 four yacht clubs, and nine full-service marinas. It is a point of departure for the five Channel Islands, the closest of which is Anacapa Island.〔 The Ventura County Maritime Museum is located within the harbor and offers a regularly rotating exhibit, maritime-themed art, and model ships. Water taxi The US Army Corps of Engineers formed the harbor in 1960 by scooping out sand dunes and wetlands and depositing the surplus sand at the nearby beaches of Port Hueneme. The sand trap at the harbor entrance was designed to retain sand that otherwise might be diverted into the ocean due to the impacts of the construction and at the Port of Hueneme.〔Meyers, Jeff (November 1, 1990) ("An Era of Sail Lies Anchored in Two Harbors : Boating: Ventura County shoreline took on greater appeal with construction of marinas in Ventura and Oxnard." ) ''Los Angeles Times''〕 The sand was to be regularly dredged and placed on Hueneme Beach which suffers erosion due to the port blocking the littoral drift of sand.〔(September 8, 2014) ("Dredging at Channel Islands Harbor will begin Oct. 1" ) ''Ventura County Star''〕 The harbor waters connect to the north with Mandalay Bay, a residential 129-unit waterfront development built by a company called Shamrock/ Voss, a joint venture of Shamrock Holdings Inc. of Burbank and Voss Construction Co. Inc. of Oxnard in 1987.〔Boyd-Barrett, Claudia (Jun 27, 2014) ("Oxnard harbor-area residents push for central authority" ) ''Ventura County Star''〕 The development is arranged in six tracts of single-family homes and townhouses standing on reinforced concrete bulkheads along a series of short navigable canal-like waterways. Between 1950 and 1981 Mandalay Bay was a permitted oil field waste disposal site which caused the release of numerous hazardous chemicals.〔Public Meeting Fact Sheet (October 2005) ("Cleanup Proposal for North Shore at Mandalay Bay Site—Oxnard, California" ) State of California Department of Toxic Substances Control. Retrieved 2 August 2014〕 The records of what was dumped were subsequently lost, resulting in calls for an investigation and millions of dollars in lawsuits from home buyers who were told the area was safe for habitation. The Channel Islands Boating Center opened in 2013.〔Biasotti, Tony (Apr 3, 2013) ("Much-delayed Channel Islands Boating Center opens in Oxnard" ) ''Ventura County Star''〕 ==References== es:Categoría:Puertos de California 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Channel Islands Harbor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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