$90,000 Grant Added for Landslide Study

Rancho Palos Verdes will receive an additional $90,000 in federal funds to expand a study intended to find ways to stabilize the coastline at the toe of the Portuguese Bend landslide. City officials said the money is being included in the 1989-90 federal budget.

Charles Abbott, a city public works consultant who is in charge of the landslide project, said the $90,000 will be used by the Army Corps of Engineers specifically to study of the effect of the landslide on marine life.

The corps is in the midst of a $250,000 study of four landslides that have hit Rancho Palos Verdes and Rolling Hills. Begun a year ago, it focuses on what causes the slides and how stopping shoreline erosion might affect them. Later phases of the study may include devising a plan to protect the coastline.