The old Kaan beach, which served the residents of the Kiryats for a while and was closed years ago, stood abandoned and crumbling for years, disintegrating with salt water-soaked winds that ate away at the buildings and water slides. The dismantling of the facilities continued from 2015. And the part touching the water line was already returned to the public back in March 2015.
This morning (Sunday, 4/5/2020) the barracks, which stood abandoned at the back of the beach, on the side closest to the road, were dismantled and evacuated.
Watch the video - clearing swimming pools, wall remnants and paving at the beach here (photo: Motty Mendelson)
Beach evacuation operations began at the beginning of 2015. We reported on this here:
The wall and pavement were cleared first and thus the sandy beach section returned to the public.
The waves, which washed away the wall with every storm, prevented the residents from crossing from Kiryat Yam to Kiryat Haim. Along with the storms that got stronger and stronger from 2010, the wall went and curved due to the formation of pipes and it was necessary to support the fence with large boulders.
In 2015, on the sixteenth of February, one of the strongest storms ever hit the Haifa Bay and I am mainly referring to the bay, because I documented the storm from start to finish.
In the morning of that day I photographed the storm at its peak with a heavy marine camera due to the strong winds.
The huge waves shook the wall and I felt the shock on the ground.
At nine thirty in the morning I saw the sea receding too much and a number of waves joined it which became a huge wave known in oceanography as a "wild wave" and completely destroyed the wall and completely laid it down. The wave reached the road and returned with everything it found along the way. It is hard to forget such a gruesome sight
And what the courts failed to do for years, one storm did.
Minutes later a friend from the Navy called and excitedly said: Did you see? A real small tsunami.
I laughed, how come there is no video.
After the storm, they began to clear the ruins. and destroy the beach here but only a pool and surfaces. Today the scroll was actually signed on a beach here. I should note that it took a while to return to the days before construction. including some sinkholes and eddies that remain to this day.
See you at sea after the corona, dear citizens.
Clearing swimming pools, wall remnants and paving on the beach here in Haifa
