Balboa Peninsula Beach Restoration

Chambers Group has been providing 2 years of habitat restoration maintenance for the 2.2-acre Balboa Peninsula Beach Restoration (coastal dune) Project under Chambers Group’s on-call contract with the City of Newport Beach through an existing on-call contract. Our team of restoration specialists has assisted in a variety of aspects of the restoration effort including weed abatement, trash removal, seed collection, nursery coordination, plant material acquisition, supplemental watering, soil re-contouring in support of path maintenance, fencing (rope) maintenance, and public engagement in support of restoration efforts. We developed a revised planting palette, secured nursery stock, and implemented container plant installation in February 2024. Our in-house licensed qualified herbicide applicators (QALs) conducted herbicide applications to target annual and perennial non-native plant species. Chambers Group restoration ecologists know how to take a site from a disturbed barren or weed-infested wasteland to a high-quality native habitat through aggressive monitoring and crew oversight. Our maintenance staff is knowledgeable in native and non-native coastal plant identification, including special status plants such as coast woolly-heads (Nemacaulis denudata var. denudata), which are present onsite. They are also cross-trained with biologists and often work in areas with sensitive wildlife, including the western snowy plover (Charadrius alexandrines).