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The Orange County Sheriff's Department Harbor Patrol office is located
within the confines of the Sunset Marina Park at the West end of Orange
County. This area was originally known as Sunset Aquatic park. The Harbor
Patrol is staffed 24 hours a day and is located in a temporary facility
near the public boat launch ramp.
The
Orange County Sheriff's Harbor Patrol works in close cooperation with many outside agencies in
the area. These agencies include: U.S. Navy, Local Police agencies,
US Coast Guard, Local Fire agencies, US Ocean Safety
Lifeguards, Huntington Beach Lifeguards, Long
Beach Lifeguards, Seal Beach Lifeguards, and numerous clubs and
organizations working in the harbor. The Harbor Patrol is also responsible for patrolling
the Seal Beach Naval Weapons Station and off shore areas to 3 miles out.
Altogether the patrol area covers about 1,745 acres of water and 6 miles
of shoreline inside the harbor.
Huntington Harbour
Lifestyle
Huntington Harbour is Southern
California living at its finest, with excellent schools, a low crime rate
great weather, good employment opportunity and an excellent quality of
life.
Huntington Harbour
Housing
Huntington Harbour's
official name is Sunset/Huntington Harbour and includes Sunset Marina
Park
and 2 public marinas. There are 5 marinas within the Sunset-Huntington
harbor area, mostly consisting of privately owned
slips adjacent to residential properties, with about 3,000 boats in the
harbor, with over 1500 water front condominium properties and some
single family homes also in the surrounding area. The marine entrance to
these homes on the harbor is through Anaheim Bay and between the Naval Weapons
Station and Huntington Harbour and under the PCH bridge.
Boats pass through the Anaheim Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Huntington Harbour is an excellent
place to buy a home or investment property. Huntington Harbour's excellent
marine recreational opportunities make for a good place to invest in year
'round weekly rental property.
Prices for
condominiums range from the low $100,000s to $850,000 for premium
locations. Single-family homes start at $500,000 and run up to $3.5
million for large waterfront homes with private docks.
Huntington Harbour
Employment
Businesses include aerospace and high technology;
petroleum and petroleum support; manufacturing; computer hardware and
software; financial and business services; automobile services; machine
shop services and precision instruments to name a few.
Huntington Harbour
Recreation
Sunset Marina Park includes a 276 slip marina, a public
boat launch ramp with
multiple lanes, boat and trailer parking, car parking areas, a boat repair
yard and public picnic areas. There are no specific operating hours for
the harbor itself, but a 10:00 p.m. curfew law is enforced at all beaches.
There are also excellent recreational opportunities
right next door in Huntington Beach with it's nine miles of spacious,
Sandy beaches. Huntington Beach is
also home to one of the largest pleasure piers in the world. The city's
park system includes 58 public
parks and Huntington Central Park, the largest city owned and operated regional park in Orange
County. Huntington Beach also offers
three miles of equestrian trails, a marina, a city gym, two golf
courses, a
seniors' recreation center, and 72 tennis courts.
Huntington Harbour is also a popular recreational destination for families
who live in the surrounding neighborhoods.
Huntington Harbour
Climate
The weather in Huntington Harbour is as good as it gets
in southern California. It's why so many people want to relocate to the
area, buy their own piece of Prime Southern California Real Estate
and enjoy summers basking in the sunshine and cool Pacific Ocean breeze.
Homeowners enjoy about 300 days of glorious sunshine per year in
Huntington Harbour.
Huntington Harbour
Nature
The vast natural area that lays between the
Naval Weapons Station
and Sunset-Huntington Harbour known as the Anaheim Bay National Wildlife
Refuge, a habitat for a large variety of marine life and birds that
thrive in the natural environment that has existed for decades of maybe
centuries.
The area is said
to be one of the most important and beautiful natural wildlife areas along
the Pacific Coast. Numerous safety and environmental agencies have been
working closely on a plan to protect the area should there be some type of
disaster that would threaten the area with hazardous materials. Boats can
pass through the Anaheim Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
Huntington Harbour
History
Huntington harbor first
opened its facilities in 1969. The Huntington harbor area was an
undeveloped natural waterway next to the large wildlife habitat that still
exists undisturbed. Sunset Bay, the area's previous name, was
considered a potential recreation site in 1957. The area was surveyed in
1958 and by the year 1961 the plans for a future harbor were drawn.
64 acres of this area were
originally federal government property, part of the Naval Ammunition
Station in Seal Beach. The surplus real estate was sold to the Harbor
District under the condition that the Harbor District develop the area as
a recreational public park. At the time the real estate was purchased, in
1962, the property consisted of tidal marshlands that were completely
submerged at high tide. Additional acreage, consisting of state tidelands
of approximately 31 acres, were leased. The site used about 5 feet of fill
dirt before any homes could be built in the development.
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