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With a donation from Ellen Browning Scripps, a crescent-shaped concrete breakwater was built, forming La Jolla's Children's Pool in San Diego, CA. It was designed as safe place for familes to enjoy the beach. For unknown reasons, seals began gathering there during the early 1990s. Their numbers grew to the point that health officials denied human access and posted contamination-warning signs. Children's Pool has been the focus of a long-running dispute ever since between fans of the seals and those who think humans should have first use of the beach.