Esperance, WA
Yearly sand renourishment occurs to replenish sand lost to sand drift that has been exacerbated by development of the bay. Around 20,000 cubic metres of sand is transported annually to keep up with losses of around the same volume. Moving forward the council is looking into sand back-passing, potentially coordinated with a nearby dredging program, […]
Wooli Beach
Wooli beach has a long history of coastal instability, and the local village is at significant risk from storm erosion and long term coastline recession. A trial beach renourishment was undertaken in 2019 at a cost of $80,000, complemented by $20,000 in dune revegetation. Due to the trial’s success, the most recent Beach Management Strategy […]
Aspendale Beach, VIC
North Aspendale Beach is subject to erosion due to the nearby Mordialloc Pier restricting natural sand movement. The beach is periodically nourished with fine grained sand from dredging works in the entrance of Mordialloc Creek. In 2005, the Victorian Government and Kingston City Council funded an erosion protection trial consisting of a 50-metre geotextile sandbag […]
Blacksmiths Beach, NSW
Areas of Blacksmiths Beach were damaged and eroding due to unmanaged off-road vehicle access. Dredged material from the nearby Swansea Channel was deposited on Blacksmiths Beach, complemented by low-density revegetation and exclusion of vehicles. While the revegetation offset the damage done by the sand placement, no clear ecological benefit of the works was found in […]
Umina-Ocean Beach, NSW
The rate of erosion at the beach was drastically increased after a severe storm in 2015. In response, Central Coast Council and the NSW Government committed $1 million to address this, including a coastal monitoring program, a temporary sandbag seawall and a beach scraping campaign to build up the dunes. A general trend of accretion […]
Surfers Paradise Sand Backpass, QLD
The Gold Coast northern beaches are impacted by storms and king tides, which compromises the foreshore infrastructure and affects beachgoers. This project will build on the existing sand pumping pipeline at the Gold Coast Seaway. Currently, the existing bypass pumps sand to South Stradbroke Island; this will be extended so that sand can be pumped […]
Towra Beach, NSW
This project aimed to protect the ecologically important Towra Lagoon by building up a protective dune in front of it. Beach alignment was restored by pumping sand from around the Towra Spit Island area back to the front of the Towra Beach.
Gold Coast Seaway, QLD
The Nerang River entrance was moving northward by up to 60 metres per year, preventing safe boat navigation and threatening built infrastructure to the north. After an intensive environmental study, the Queensland government installed two breakwaters at the mouth of the river, as well as a sand pumping system at a cost of $50 million. […]
Victor Harbor, SA
Esplanade Beach in Victor Harbor is relatively sheltered and experiences cycles of erosion and accretion. A particularly significant erosion cycle occurred 2004 to 2011 which was accompanied by installation of protection items and sandbag groynes. This has been complemented over time with other management such as dune drift fencing, sand nourishment and restoration of dune […]
West Beach, SA
West Beach is subject to higher erosion pressures than nearby beaches, with estimated annual sand losses of up to 100,000m3. The beach originally received around 60,000m3 of sand each year from the Adelaide sand pumping system, however this was not sufficient to address the speed of the erosion. After a storm event exposed a sand […]