Yulex geta second chance at a first impression, and this time they makeit count. Though they were quick to remove signs only recently erected on the beach.. https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/council-was-asked-about-danger-signs To be replaced with signs "Collaroy artificial reef project 2023", This is a glimpse of what a beach could be; following sensible Council planning; (post storms in 1974) eg. I think we have already seen 19 cm of sea level rise on the east coast - and at least up here it hasnt translated to any significant/extended erosion issues. It looks like Chernobyl. If no acquisition or buyback is made, then good luck to the owners trying to sell these properties. IT WILL NOT FUCKN WORK YA FLOGS.. 5/6 NE SWELL NOW.. a proper ECL .. will destroy it .. this frustrates me .. Structures appeared. How was Collaroy Beach made? This widely publicized protest was an attempt to promote a pro-democracy, civil liberty, social justice message, and to protest against corporate greed and economic inequality. The reef/sand nourishment are both mainly designed to widen and protect the public property, ie the beach, in front of the buried seawall. This strategy had been used in other parts of the world where poor planning placed buildings too close to the ocean. Furthermore they have facilitated an increase of erosion to adjacent beaches. Planning Minister Rob Stokes told the Telegraph there was a recent plan to build a sea wall in Collaroy at the scene of the devastation but the owners would not agree on making a contribution, so it never happened. People need to be absolutely on top of the approval process in their local area if they want to have a hope of preventing these structures. I've got a mate who works for MHL as a coastal engineer. Didnt hear boo about that from anyone ? In that regard it seems to have achieved its design objectives very nicely, and the sacrificing of the public beach (and public access/amenity) in front of it is just 'collateral damage'. Nah, buybacks don't put the properties back onto the market, they're acquired by the council at market rates and then emptied, returned to parkland and foredune, both a buffer against storm action. Link any useful papers youve found. July 28, 2021 - 7:04AM. Go figure! Between these three, you can protect any shore from water erosion. Isolated, desk top engineering at its finest. The seawall is probably built over them. Vertical Seawalls Vertical seawalls are exactly what you think. Men sand-bag properties on Collaroy Beach Arlington Building and a run of houses to the north circa 1922. Just last March of 2019, the Northern Beaches Council succeeded in convincing the State Government to chip in on the assistance package to be given to Collaroy residents for the construction of the sea wall. In 2017, Gold Coast City Council funded, in conjunction with threatened property owners, an artificial reef offshore from Palm Beach. What they fail to mention is the massive corruption that's involved in awarding these contracts and the fact that the construction companies themselves for the most part, are predominantly Yakuza. And this is on a small, weak windswell from the south-east. Yep. they might be right basis forecasts but beachfront owners bought in an area that didnt previously exhibit high erosion issues. The activism of Tom Kirsop is legendary and in December 2019 Northern Beaches Council honoured him with a park at Narrabeen called Surfrider Gardens. Unfortunately groynes or artificial headlands are not part of the certified Coastal Zone Management Plan CZMP (2014). The Collaroy Beach seawall project was put to the test for the first time today with the arrival of a moderate to large east-northeast groundswell from ex-Tropical Cyclone Seth, coinciding with a king tide. These are the taxpayer funded grants that LGAs will apply for, to repair the wall. Is there a sea wall at Collaroy? I think they would be very happy with an ugly seawall. Took the words out of my mouth. Sorry Peter but we can't just take you on your word for it. It might take a bit of digging to prove it, but the evidence is accumulating already. The root cause is building on the foredune. High-quality Collaroy Beach Wall Art designed and sold by artists. I liken it to a form of gambling. I wouldnt have thought there would be much fetch? Thanks Stu, didn't even know such a thing existed here. They may have a wall, but there will be no beach in front of it. The Local Government Act allows the council to set a special rate to pay for that. Moreover, the current DA makes no mention of sand nourishment from sand sourced elsewhere, such as deeper water offshore. While celebrating his record for coastal protection with a park on the Collaroy-Narrabeen stretch, Northern Beaches council was also processing a Development Application thatd threaten the very same beach. The National Library of Australia's Copies Direct service lets you purchase higher quality, larger sized photocopies or electronic copies of newspapers pages. They must only exist on a dense (and expensive) schedule of maintenance, no doubt. I have limited state / lga experience but my perception is this broader thinking can get lost in short term self interest (putting it politely) as touched on by BB and others. Inevitable as the ocean winning, is a painted "cock and balls" on that wall. The DA for the Collaroy seawall was approved while the Northern Beaches Council was under administration. It would be fascinating to see the NSW Cabinet documents which advocated for this approach. At what point do we put an end to this insanity. BB who is getting the sand which has gone from here? A "macabre" scene greeted surfers followinga mass kill of invertebrates. On the release of his latest edit, R-Cal chats to Swellnet about love and other acrobatics. GCCC's approach protects both private property and public beach amenity without any visible structures on the beach. Where the only issue is private property things are a bit simpler. The recently constructed Collaroy seawall yesterday failed - or passed - its first real test, depending on which side of it you stand. I hope this Collaroy wall hasn't set a precedent. Joint Venture adopts new name, Te Puna Aonui. The public should not suffer loss of amenity or pay the costs to protect it. Kook survives a brutal seawall bashin' well almost! A quick Google informs me that they are part of the State government, either Planning or Public Works, which was news to me because its mainly staffed by UNSW academics and is associated with the uni as a research centre. The beginnings of a huge $25 million concrete wall in Collaroy on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Certain death. Good point, Lilas, but I think the issues around hard structures and beach environments have been established for so long and are so well known in the coastal management field that it's taken as read. To add a bit of controversy, I've often wondered: Is Carties borderline just a novelty wave? You don't have to look around the world because the Gold Coast has implemented the only effective "non- ugly as fuck" option at Palm Beach Qld. If the houses go, the road goes shortly after. I suspect the engineering report will say thatif we ever get to see it. Turned this place into a concreters paradise. Newiie Harbour was pumping. Make his name famous: Peter Horton. oh yeah and someone call security. Collaroy's existing situation is precarious at best. Futile. A shame too, as it would probably be a good strategy. I dare say the neighbours are on notice too. Good balanced post tango. Yep pretty significant increase in the height. Dates announced for Spencer Frost and Guy Williment's film shot in Russia's far east. My understanding was that council were looking at a rock revetment as they'd given approvals to a couple of other DAs for rock revetments, says Gordon. How to Build a Seawall: Step 1: Conduct a thorough examination of the surrounding area and environment. Plop! Cheers. It is a difficult and wicked problem. If Surfrider and others haven't done it already, my view is that Swellnet, as a legitimate media organisation with a substantial subscriber and stakeholder base, could very reasonably write to both the NSW Coastal Council and Sydney Coastal Councils Group seeking advice about the adaptation options and why buy-back was not considered suitable for the site. This forms a foredune and a backdude. Bite the bullet and start buying the properties back and bulldozing them. They have destroyed every built form on the beaches. Apologies for misreading you. Greed and stupidity rule in councils . Not off topic JS, wouldn't be surprised if there is a hyperlink to that video in the sea wall approval document!. As you know we have the Great Ocean Road down here , which was a huge Tourist attraction ( before Covid.) I'm invested now, and want to know the latest. and the sick irony of the beach access sign detailing the seawall works with all "enquires to be made I am looking at it but there is probably someone better qualified out there. Its an issue the whole coastline, councils desperate to get what is a liability off their books and some homeowners, beachfront, genuinely caught out by it. On top of this they have places sand band grounds out perpendicular to the sandunes. I am thinking that sad as it may be, we will never be able to turn back the clock and have a natural passive coastline of Sandhills and trees. Photograph: Wendy Harmer Coastal municipalities have been tackling the problem with a suite of measures. There's no sense at all in building something like this from an engineering perspective. Rise seems nearly double than the run. A quick trip Todos Santos way during a belting nor'west swell. Agree 100%. My NSW water buddy says MHL are coyboys. This paper by John Corkill is worth reading if you're interested - he's a legend. It's folly to believe you can hold back the Pacific. This process must require wind over thousands of years but people and waves stomping over dunes seems like any dune system near a popular town once destroyed wont come back? There is no evidence whatsoever of accelerated erosion seaward of these newly constructed works. https://www.dexpan.com/pages/how-to-use-dexpan-break-concrete-rocks-easily. The coastline in SW Vic has evolved to respond to a dominant SW swell and storm pattern - that's why the beaches face the way they do. Big walls like this one are getting smashed and although for the most part they are still there, everything behind them is going. Not sure if that happened though. (This statement also doesn't specify what type of HARD structure. As the article states, in terms of erosion, vertical walls don't work and actually exacerbate the problem. Hi Craig, the short answer is I'm not sure as I have been out of NSW too long. These walls stick straight up into the air like a fence made of steel or concrete. What an absolute joke of a mess this has turned into. https://www.planning.nsw.gov.au/Policy-and-Legislation/Coastal-and-marin "The scheme operates along the entire NSW coastal zone except for the Greater Sydney metropolitan area, identified as between Broken Bay (Central Coast) and the Minnamurra River (south of Shellharbour).". Thanks heaps for the update Craig. Ignorant clown. I have a blanket policy of not feeling sorry for people owning properties worth multiple millions of dollars, who have lived the better part of their lives walking from their beachfront home directly onto the sand. The finished work is 100 metres long by 13 metres high. What some consider the ugliest wall in Australia could soon be bigger, with residents pushing to extend the Collaroy seawall on Sydney's northern beaches. Some interesting papers about building seawalls and the effect it has on risk perception in the post Tsunami context in Japan: Littlejohn (2020) "Dividing worlds tsunamis, seawalls, and ontological politics in Northeast Japan" Even though they are sure to meet codethey dont look to going by the pic. Both Donohoe and Gorden were correct, up to a point: The construction began with concrete piles sunk six metres below sea level, protected by a rock toe. The Collaroy Beach coastline on May 6, 2016 before major storms swept the shoreline. Confirming that they were involved in the initial design only. other than just the width of beaches increasing, has anyone actually seen a full dune rebuilt. Probably not council's fault then, happy to blame the owners! OK this is the real one. Yea I agree with this. Those days are gone, but we can make the future even better IF we use our brains like you say! I suppose there are still those with more dollars than sense, but for me, the land is as good as built below the high-tide mark. On Saturday November 27th hundreds of locals came down to Collaroy Beach / North Narrabeen Beach in grim weather conditions to protest the monstrous 7 meter . That 3-4x the height of the curved revetment? "community engagement", and my personal favourite "building resilience". Thanks lilas. Gold Coast City Council had a similar problem to Collaroy at Palm Beach Qld. Most swells will have to wrap around the rock/reef headlands as well as cape Otway before this and nicely wrap the swell into the bays and our coast has been shaped like this for however thousands of years so it is used to it, and this is what us humans observe as the normal state of the beaches as they are quite predictable and dont change much around here. In 2002, about 3000 people took to the beach to protest a planned sea wall, concerned it could destroy the beach. An awkward situation, but only for one of the parties, as the Woz suspends the current Longboard World Champ. I avoid it because I dont think anyone truly is except for a small % of big players who manipulate the market (or act like the house) and the rest just ride the peaks and troughs. From their perspective building the wall before further erosion took place and moved closer to the road was another advantage as was disregarding the impact on the beach for a potentially more permanent solution. Mentioned in a previous article (linked below) - the region hosts submarine cables, so it's part of the Northern Sydney Protection Zone. However, a few queries regarding your post: "Sure if youve bought the last 5 years ignorance cant be an excuse" - why does five years give one grace? The engineers would have likely argued against this for the reasons given above (and then some). They were concerned the sand directly in front of the seawall would be washed away, eroding their beach, and, on Tuesday, that's exactly what happened. Can't understand why more engineering research isn't focused on solutions further out in the water to dissipate the swell energy before it reaches the shore at full speed. The track became a road. Their ultimate solution was a combination of 3 things- a rock boulder seawall buried in the dunes as a final line of defense in extreme erosion events to protect private properties behind (this seawall actually runs for the full extent of the Gold Coast nth beaches but is rarely seen as it is completely buried under dunes/vege), an offshore reef, also rock boulders, to attenuate wave energy under normal conditions thus widening the beach in its lee, and lastly- sand nourishment, adding more sand to the beach system. Completely agree that not all beach owners are cashed up pricks. If they approached the landowners then the most they would be offered is market value. why should the taxpayer pay to protect a small number of private landholders who actively choose to profit from purchasing in a tidal zone? You'd think that would then open it up for more legal action (aka why did ABC get first dibs and XYZ missed out?). Collaroy Sea Wall With such close proximity to the ocean, our client tasked us with producing an alternative to the commonly used polystyrene forms. The houses up the dune with no apparent erosion would be an apple compared to these lemons (for now). Step 3: Calculate the number of pilings that will be required. https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/28/world/28israel6/28israel6-sup https://files.northernbeaches.nsw.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents/g Basque Wavegarden Project Has Far-Reaching Implications, Watch: Ryan Callinan // Beneath A Pear Tree, Kala Grace In Dramatic Rescue While Competing In Backdoor Shootout, 'Corners Of The Earth: Kamchatka' Tour Dates, Watch: Cronulla's Jarvis Earle Wins World Junior Title. Will it make Carties better or will kooks just ride into the wall even more. You wouldn't accept that in a bridge from an engineer, so why accept it in anything else? The 18-year-old scored a near-perfect 9.50 in the Final, held at Seaside Reef in Encinitas, California. With increased ocean levels comes all those properties around Botany Bay, Parramatta river, Georges river. Just look at the surfcams tommorow morning, will be another case of ugly easterly that will make problems worse. "There's no sense at all in building something like this from an engineering perspective. High rises to sea walls. It's propped up by the NSW and local governments way beyond the importance or value of that stretch of private land. bit of a worry but, when you buy a nice piece of land by the ocean in high risk erosion zone..why do tax payers have to buy the property back,,,surely the owner knew the risks ? Good point, lilas, that explains the mystery of why aborigines didn't build their homes close to the ocean. Perhaps at best, the council acquires the land and owners get a sum to relocate to a 'normal' house west of Pittwater Road (god forbid). https://static01.nyt.com/images/2017/01/28/world/28israel6/28israel6-sup Sea-change hostage negotiations at Hellhole of the Pacific Its also been the focus point for opposition to coastal development; an abject lesson about what results from bad policy. 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