1 / 15

Adelaide Coastline Sand Carting May 2004

Adelaide Coastline Sand Carting May 2004. Glenelg Beach Removing 2-3 metres depth of sand. Beach width reduced by 100 metres. Glenelg Beach. Looking north towards the breakwater. Glenelg Beach. Looking south towards the jetty.

jaden
Download Presentation

Adelaide Coastline Sand Carting May 2004

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Adelaide CoastlineSand CartingMay 2004

  2. Glenelg BeachRemoving 2-3 metres depth of sand Beach width reduced by 100 metres

  3. Glenelg Beach Looking north towards the breakwater

  4. Glenelg Beach Looking south towards the jetty

  5. Holdfast Shores MarinaCause of the buildup of sand is the marina entranceprotection with a breakwater

  6. South Glenelg – sourcing the sand South Glenelg Stormwater outlet – Glenelg south Public safety is a concern with heavy earthmoving equipment Rock wall and narrow beach at the southern end of Glenelg

  7. Moving sandOffshore Bar is no longer a Tombolo Dredge is still working

  8. Loading and moving sand from Glenelg Beach

  9. The Broadway – Protecting the old seawall With a new section of rip-rap wall Note: geotextile filter, gravel base before large rocks are set in place. Concrete wall has been increased in sizeNote also the beach width at high tide on a calm day

  10. Adelaide’s narrow beaches.Hove on the left and Somerton on the rightNote that it is high tide on a calm day Issue: the narrow beach is the result of roads and houses trapping the sand of the coastal foredune.Rock walls are protection for the structures we have built along the coast.

  11. Brighton BeachLooking northHigh tide on a calm day Seacliff Beach and dune bufferlooking south

  12. SeacliffSand from Glenelg is being dumped in piles on the beach to be levelled off by the waves

  13. SeacliffSand from Glenelg is being dumped in a huge mound on the beach between Seacliff and Brighton

More Related