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Miramar Reservoir is a reservoir in the Scripps Ranch community of San Diego, California.Owned, operated and maintained by the City of San Diego, the reservoir and its 165-foot tall earthen embankment dam were completed in 1960 as part of the second San Diego Aqueduct project. [1]
The San Diego-La Jolla Underwater Park was founded in 1970, followed by the San Diego-Scripps Coastal Marine Conservation Area and the Matlahuayl State Marine Reserve in 1999. The environmental impact of population growth and tourism on Scripps Memorial Park and adjacent coastal areas led to the 2001 establishment of the Scripps Park Project ...
La Jolla Shores, with its northern part Scripps Beach, is a beach and vacation/residential community of the same name in the community of La Jolla in San Diego, California. The La Jolla Shores business district is a mixed-use village encircling Laureate Park on Avenida de la Playa in the village of La Jolla Shores.
Scripps Canyon was the site of the SEALAB II project in 1965, where divers dwelled in a submersible habitat at 205 ft (62 m) for 15 days at a time. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] The canyon was a site of physical oceanography research in the 1970s and 1980s to look at water-sediment interactions such as turbidity currents , canyon erosion , and sediment ...
Scripps Coastal Reserve is a 126-acre (51 hectare) University of California Natural Reserve System reserve located west of UC San Diego in the La Jolla Farms area of La Jolla, California. Administered by UC San Diego, the site is owned by the University of California and managed for teaching and research.
The Old Scripps Building overlooks the Pacific coast near the Ellen Browning Scripps Memorial Pier on the campus of Scripps Institution of Oceanography.It is set on a terrace about 15 feet (4.6 m) above the shore, and is a relatively nondescript concrete structure, two stories in height, measuring about 50 by 75 feet (15 m × 23 m), with the long axis oriented roughly east–west.
On December 30, 1980, the City of Poway included SR 56 in the city plan extending east through the city to a northern extension of SR 125. [45] In 1983, both the cities of San Diego and Poway supported the extension of SR 56 to SR 67, although the City of Poway wanted the route moved and had reservations about the freeway ending in the city. [46]
The Scripps Formation is a geologic formation in coastal San Diego County, California. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is named for its type section north of Scripps Pier, on the north side of the Blacks Canyon mouth.