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2-mile jaunt offers views of San Dieguito River Lagoon’s restored habitat

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On June 5th, 2024, the San Dieguito Lagoon W19 Restoration Project hit a new milestone opening the final wetland basin to tidal inundation. See stories below. Hoodline News DelMar Times San Diego Union Tribune NBC San Diego

On August 28 2023, Marathon Construction Corporation was privileged to welcome the honorable Mike Levin, U.S. representative for California’s 49th congressional district, for a tour of the San Dieguito Lagoon Wetland Restoration Project Phase II.  Read more here and here.  

Marathon Construction was honored to be the “Star of the Show” at the John Deere 2023 Con Expo. Watch the video here.

Lake Hodges Dam repair continues Reservoir closed for recreation because of lowered water level Read more here

A high-production job like the San Dieguito Lagoon Restoration Project calls for expertise from both the contractor and its equipment dealer. The earthwork portion of this eight-year project will take approximately two years of digging in the the water table, so each heavy piece of machinery needs to exert the lowest ground pressure During the… [Read more]

Like the Ballona Wetlands and most other southern California tidal wetlands, San Elijo was gradually filled in over a century. Bulldozers unfilled it over the past 18 months. Full Patch Article

Marathon Construction Co. of Lakeside on Thursday was awarded its latest Pentagon contract — a $7.37 million job to repair the quay wall at Naval Base San Diego. The work provides for the renovation of several sections of the “deteriorated” quay wall along the piers, including repair of the quay wall substructure, steel sheet piles,… [Read more]

2018-07-20 Union Tribune Sand replenishment project — part of lagoon restoration — complete BY PHIL DIEHL Officials celebrated the completion of another big North County beach replenishment project Tuesday and a milestone in the $120 million restoration of the San Elijo Lagoon. To prepare for the restoration, workers dug nearly 440,000 cubic yards of clean sand… [Read more]

2018-07-17 Cardiff State Beach Awarded One of Nation’s Best Restored Read story on the San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy blog.

See story at NBC San Diego.

RESTORATION GROUNDBREAKING 29 November 2017: 11 am -1 pm Ceremony at San Elijo Lagoon Nature Center  

Del Mar Times by Joe Tash A construction crew is digging up thousands of cubic yards of dirt from a former parking lot next to the Del Mar Fairgrounds as part of an ambitious plan to restore the property to a tidal wetland, as it existed long before humans began developing the North County coast…. [Read more]

AGC recognized 15 member companies with an Aon Build America Award. For more than 20 years, these prestigious and coveted awards were given to projects selected by a panel of a contractor’s toughest critics: other contractors. Here are this year’s winners.

Coastal wetlands project shows progress halfway to completion DEL MAR – The birds are already casing the place, despite the rumbling excavators and bulldozers busily digging and hauling soil along a network of dirt roads. They are endangered California least terns, and when the machinery is gone, there will be nesting sites for them and… [Read more]

$86M job is to restore 440 acres of San Dieguito River Valley DEL MAR —- Attention coastal commuters: That fleet of heavy equipment clearing brush and digging holes in the San Dieguito River Valley at Via de la Valle is not preparing the ground for a shopping mall.