When the last 150 feet of Santa Cruz’s iconic wharf plummeted into the ocean Monday, city leaders were still grappling with damage it had sustained two years earlier during back-to-back winter storms.

The famed Santa Cruz Wharf on the California coast will remain indefinitely closed until further notice after part collapsed this week with city leaders fearing for its future due to growing effects of climate change.

Although hopeful to reopen the damaged Santa Cruz Municipal Wharf in the coming weeks, Santa Cruz City officials do not yet have a timeframe for the 110-year-old structure’s reopening until