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preferred option would be to remove the groynes and consider
designing one (aesthetically!) at the end of Picnic Point (Jetty
Road) which is a non-swimming beach and already devoid of sand.
This would retard the nett loss of sand from the "Sandringham
Cell" (Red Bluff to Picnic Point) to the "Hampton Cell"
(Sandringham Harbour & beyond). As Sandringham receives northerly drifting sand from Black Rock, this would, over several years, build up the total sand complement in the areas currently under erosive influences and achieve the desired outcome much more aesthetically and more cheaply. An accelerated variation of this would be to supplement the sand arriving from Black Rock with pumped sand from the bay as already proposed. Whilst this may be necessary, the disadvantage of this is that the quality of that sand is not the most desirable for beach goers, as those who frequent Edwards Street beach know. The sand there was pumped onto the beach about twenty years ago and it was, for many years, impossible to walk barefoot on the "shellgrit". Much of it is still evident in that form today. |
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