Marengo Beach, VIC
Marengo Beach backs onto the Great Ocean Road, a highly popular tourist road. The beach was renourished with sand dredged from a nearby harbour to prevent erosion and storm damage for affecting this important infrastructure. More renourishment is planned to continue to build the resilience of the beach to coastal hazards.
Lamberts Beach, QLD
Tropical Cyclone Debbie caused extensive erosion in March 2017. This renourishment followed preliminary work that was completed in November 2018 where sand was pushed from the tidal zone up against the eroded front dune. The project successfully restored the dune structure. The sand for this project was sourced from North Queensland Bulk Ports land at […]
Kingscliff Beach, NSW
Kingscliff Beach is the only foreshore in the Tweed Shire that has significant community assets at risk from erosion. It is the most highly visited beach in the area, with community assets along the foreshore and local businesses directly behind that. Tweed Shire Council considered ongoing sand nourishment to manage the erosion, but after a […]
Elwood Beach, VIC
Prior to 2011 Elwood beach was eroding at 0.7m/year, which has now been reduced to close to zero erosion after being renourished and having a rock groyne installed. Success can likely be attributed to the combination of the groyne and the coarse and heavier quarry sand used, which does not erode as fast as the […]
Duranbah Beach, NSW
Duranbah Beach has high recreational and economic value even though it is small, as it has a well known, consistent surf break. The northern end of the beach is eroding due to longshore drift. To address this, the beach is nourished twice a year with sand sourced as part of the Tweed Sand Bypass project, […]
Adelaide Coastline Sand Pumping, SA
Longshore drift continually erodes Adelaide’s southern beaches and causes sand build up along its northern beaches. Two sand pumping pipelines were installed to enable transfer of sand back to the southern beaches without the need for carting. The Glenelg-Kingston Park pipeline pumps an average of 100,000m3 of sand per year; the Torrens Outlet to West […]