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dc.contributor.authorCastelle, Bruno
dc.contributor.authorTurner, Ian L
dc.contributor.authorBertin, Xavier
dc.contributor.authorTomlinson, Rodger
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:10:51Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:10:51Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-10-14T07:46:02Z
dc.identifier.issn0378-3839
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.coastaleng.2009.05.005
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/30649
dc.description.abstractErosion of the southern Gold Coast beaches (SE Queensland, Australia) was exacerbated after the extension of the Tweed River training walls in the early 1960s. To achieve the objective of restoring and maintaining beach amenity, significant nourishment works have been undertaken in Coolangatta Bay over the past 30 years. Particularly, under the Tweed River Entrance Sand Bypassing Project (TRESBP) since 1995, a number of nourishment campaigns and the implementation of a permanent sand bypass system in 2001 have resulted in significant changes of Coolangatta Bay morphology. The present case study investigates the influence of both wave climate and nourishment works on the area extending from the updrift Snapper Rocks area to downdrift Kirra Beach. SWAN spectral wave model is implemented at Coolangatta Bay area and forced by the global wave model WW3 to estimate wave forcing and the potential natural longshore drift entering in Coolangatta. Specific transects extracted from accurate bathymetric surveys are used to investigate and quantify Coolangatta Bay sedimentation for the period 1987-2005. A network of Argus video stations provides high sample rate information on the shoreline evolution. Results show that, over the past 10 years, Coolangatta Bay has infilled rapidly. Sedimentation reached up to 6 m in some areas between 1995 and 2005, with beach width increasing by 200 m at Kirra Beach. Rapid seaward shoreline migration is consistent with the intense over-pumping of sand relative to the natural potential to move sand alongshore. The nourishment strategy used during this project has successfully delivered large amounts of sand to the southern Gold Coast embayment, although it has been up to now controversial from many community perspectives. The artificial sand bypassing process proved to be much more efficient than depositing the dredged sand in the nearshore area which requires a significant period of low energy condition in order for the deposited sediment to migrate shoreward and weld to the shore. This case study confirms that, when carefully undertaken, sand bypassing is a sustainable and flexible soft engineering approach which can work in concert with natural processes.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom940
dc.relation.ispartofpageto950
dc.relation.ispartofissue9
dc.relation.ispartofjournalCoastal Engineering
dc.relation.ispartofvolume56
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchGeology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOceanography
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCivil engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchMaritime engineering
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3708
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4005
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4015
dc.titleBeach nourishments at Coolangatta Bay over the period 1987–2005: Impacts and lessons
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.rights.copyright© 2009 Elsevier B.V.. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal's website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2009
gro.hasfulltextFull Text
gro.griffith.authorTomlinson, Rodger B.


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