Aquatic Ecosystem Health - Seawalls
   
 
   
 

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General

Seawalls are erected in an attempt to reduce beach erosion and wave impact, and have historically been a common approach to managing shoreline erosion. Three potential impacts of these structures include impoundment or placement loss, passive erosion, and active erosion.

Protocol

Not Available

Costs

No standard costs available for sea wall monitoring

Case studies

Interactions of seawalls and beaches
http://www.stormingmedia.us/17/1783/A178323.html

Application of photogrammetry in monitoring of marine rubble structures
http://rincon.gps.caltech.edu/FIG10sym/pdf/Session%20II_Paper%202.pdf

North Sydney Council
Seawall Asset Management Plan, 2002.

Procedural Guidance Document: Monitoring
http://www.coastal.ca.gov/pgd/pgd-mon.html

People Contacts

Dr Gee Chapman
EICC
02 9351 2590

Organisation Contacts

Centre for Research on Ecological Impacts of Coastal Cities
eicc@bio.usyd.edu.au

Advanced References

Lee, H.J., Chu, Y,S. and Park, Y.A. (1999). Sedimentary processes of fine-grained material and the effect of seawall construction in the Daeho macrotidal flat–nearshore area, northern west coast of Korea, Marine Geology 157 (3-4) pp 171-184.

Dean, R.G., Chen, R. and Browder, A.E. (1997). Full scale monitoring study of a submerged breakwater, Palm Beach, Florida, USA, Coastal Engineering 29 (3-4) pp 291-315.

Jackson, N.L. and Jackson, K.F. (1994). The mobility of beach fill in front of a seawall on an estuarine shoreline, Cliffwood Beach, New Jersey, USA, Ocean & Coastal Management, 23 (2) pp 149-166.

 

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