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Beach Monitoring Project
NEXT MONITORING SESSION
Thursday 30th January 6pm
Beach monitoring is a major project for the Port Fairy Coastal Group. The monitoring provides detailed information to Moyne Shire Council and State Government Agencies for use in developing a response to erosion and predicted rises in sea level. Every few weeks we use a drone or laser to accurately measure beach profiles along 4km of East Beach. The table to the right illustrates recent changes against historic data see here for explanation, or here for historic data.
Protecting East Beach against leakage from the old tip
Read here David Bills-Thompson's explanation of the objectives of beach monitoring and the wave energy dissipation structure at the old tip site.
This chart shows sand height at posts 3 (Manifold Street), 6 (NE end of night soil site) and 9 (N end of tip site) over time.
Up to about 2017, sand levels at posts 3, 6 and 9 track each other reasonably well with a slight variation in the phase of the rise and fall at each post. After 2017, post 3 has a very dramatic sand loss (the Orange line) and its still recovering.
While there is still some correlation between the levels at the posts, its not as well defined as it is prior to 2017.
Students from Port Fairy Consolidated School and St Patrick’s Primary School recently joined members of Port Fairy Coastal Group in collecting sand measurements as part of our beach monitoring program. The students confidently used our new surveying equipment, purchased with the generous assistance of Moyne Shire Council.
JOIN THE TEAM
PFCG is always on the lookout for enthusiastic new recruits to join our beach monitoring sessions. If you are interested contact us to find out more.
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Once or twice a term students from local primary schools join PFCG and help measure sand levels at Pea Soup and South Beach. Drones cannot be used to measure sand levels on these beaches so a laser is used to make transverse and longitudinal measurements.
The council uses the data to inform its coastal protection and rehabilitation work.
St Patrick's Primary School and Port Fairy Consolidated School are currently involved with this project