The historic Malibu Wall is in danger of collapsing due to erosion and the most alarmist surfers point out that the wave itself is also in danger because the flow of water from the lagoon that flows into the sea has been cut off, preventing it from carrying sand to the wave, reported several Californian media.

One of the measures taken was to place stones under the wall to support it, and this was also criticized because it does not allow the flow of water from the aforementioned lagoon to pass through.

"They showed up and started throwing rocks on the beach," Andy Lyon, whose family has surfed Malibu for generations, told Stab. "I don't know what we're going to do now."

“The solution is very simple, but instead they dumped a bunch of rocks on the beach. What is that going to do? That’s just going to make the problem worse,” added the legendary Joel Tudor as reported by Stab.

Mayor Zuma Jay is looking for cobblestone, which he believes can help keep the wall standing without causing further damage to the local ecology.

Regarding the lagoon's water passage, it has been suggested several times that it should be voluntarily reopened, but environmentalists refuse to do so because they consider that stretch of sand to be essential for native birds.

The wall was built in 1928, is listed on the United States National Historic Register, and is known from several films, including John Milius's Big Wednesday.