A section of Tourmaline Surfing Park is back open Saturday after it was closed by lifeguards when a portion of a cliff gave way. An estimated two tons of dirt and rocks sloughed off the oceanfront cliff in the 400 block of Sea Ridge Drive in La Jolla around 1:30 p.m. Friday, according to the San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. The property broker told FOX 5 that the homeowner is asking for an emergency permit from the City of San Diego and the Coastal Commission to fix the problem. “The whole thing was a giant mistake. An employee of the homeowner turned on a valve to fill up the pool but forgot to turn it off,” said Barry Tashakorian, the home broker. By Saturday, the dropping had stopped \u2013 “but not before the damage was done,” said neighbor and oceanographer Dr. Tim Barnett. “Maybe it\u2019s a pool today, but with El Nino, we get a lot of rain and it could make this cliff go all at once,” Barnett said. On Friday, authorities cordoned off a roughly 50-by-50-foot radius of beach around the site of the earth slide and called in a city geologist to survey the area for any lingering hazards, according to Capt. Joe Amador of San Diego Fire-Rescue Department. The collapse caused no apparent dangers to homes at the top of the bluff and resulted in no evacuations, Amador said. Despite reports that it is purely a rental property, the broker said the homeowner was there at the time and uses a vacation rental company when he\u2019s traveling. — Fox 5<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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