BUILDINGS in towns on the Western Port coast and inland will in future need to undergo a coastal hazard and vulnerability risk assessment (CHVRA) before they can be approved.In what is believed to be a first for Victoria, permit applicants will be required to plan for predicted climate change effects such as sea level rises and erosion. Under the new rules allowance must be made for a sea level rise of not less than 0.8 metres by 2100 and for the combined effects of tides, storm surges, coastal processes. Permit applications in low lying and vulnerable areas will be referred…
Browsing: erosion
A REPORT on the vanishing Portsea Beach has concluded sand erosion is a natural process and there is nothing to be done about it except to shore up the fast-eroding shoreline. Department of Sustainability and Environment contractors are set to return to the eroded beach to repair the eastern end of the 150-metre sandbag wall – again. DSE has released the Portsea Prefeasibility Study produced by international consultancy firm Aurecon and a sand monitoring report by GHD. The report considers erosion management options for the popular family beach and concludes maintenance of the sandbag wall is the best way to…