A two-month trial is set for Adelaide's suburban beaches where sand will be dredged offshore from northern beaches and barged and deposited to southern beaches.
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00:00 How to manage Adelaide's northern beaches has long divided coastal communities.
00:06 Now two years after the latest review was launched, the State Government has a new plan.
00:12 What the scientific review concluded was that the option that scored the highest was near
00:20 shore dredging.
00:21 It will see sand dredged from between North Haven and Taperoo, then sent by barge along
00:26 the coastline then dropped around West Beach, an area which has struggled with erosion for
00:31 years.
00:32 What that will mean with near shore dredging is you won't have heavy machinery, trucks
00:37 and excavators on the beaches around Largs and Semaphore.
00:41 It's a two month trial to begin with, but the Government hopes dredging will become
00:45 part of the permanent fix.
00:47 Sand carting to West Beach will continue, with another 200,000 cubic metres to be dumped
00:53 there from other sources over the next 12 months.
00:56 All sand is good sand, but we have one significant problem.
00:59 We still have trucks on our beach because we're still using quarry sand.
01:02 They've not resolved that issue.
01:04 What we are keen to see is a long term viable solution on our coastline, not a wish list.
01:11 While the sand pipeline running north to south, which the Government scrapped on coming to
01:14 office in 2022, remains on the table should the dredging not be viable.
01:20 Hindley Beach residents are also facing another issue.
01:23 They say asbestos pieces from long demolished beach huts have started to wash up, exposed
01:28 and moved by continued coastal erosion.
01:31 This week someone picked up 15 pieces, so we're seeing a lot of it on the beach.
01:37 Charles Sturt Council says its staff and beach patrols visit the area daily and are helping
01:42 safely dispose of the material.
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