What will the southern Gold Coast beaches look like in the future?
• When the wide beaches reduce in width, the southern Gold Coast beaches will generally look as they did prior to 1960. It was in the early 1960s that the rock walls at the Tweed River were extended and began to affect the sand supply to the southern Gold Coast beaches. • Now that the large sand volumes of the first few years are dispersing, the project is now aiming to deliver only the quantities of sand that would have moved naturally. Therefore the beaches will generally cut and build in response to the swell conditions as nature intended.
