South Australia’s City of Charles Sturt Council has been forced to close access points to a number of local beaches recently due to low sand levels caused by erosion.
The Council says some beach accessways between West Beach and Henley Beach due to low sand levels to ensure beach users are safe.
“Low sand levels are an ongoing issue across City of Charles Sturt beaches, and we require more sand to replenish our City’s vulnerable beaches to counter long term drift,” said Council CEO, Paul Sutton.
“We lose around 100,000 cubic metres of sand each year from our coastline, and urgent action is needed to address this issue as the beaches are in long term deficit.”
He said the South Australian Government was currently reviewing sand management across all metropolitan beaches. The review is expected to take 12 months to complete.
“We’d hope to have a long term and sustainable solution at the end of that. But there is an urgency to make sure that we have sand coming in,” he said.
“We’re getting to a point where we are starting to (also) be quite concerned about the damage to the infrastructure.”
Mr Sutton said Council was working to safely re-open as many access points as possible by placing sandbags and moving sand.
