Texel Southwest beachfill completed

Rijkswaterstaat has successfully completed beach nourishment works at the south-west side of the Texel coastline.

The Texel Southwest beach nourishment campaign took place from March to May 2024. This included dredging and pumping around 810,000m3 of sand onto the beach, between the beach posts 9 and 12.

Over the years, Rijkswaterstaat has delivered millions of m3 of sand to protect the vulnerable part of the coastline.

The sand for the Texel beach nourishment campaign comes from the North Sea, 10 to 12km off the coast. Special equipment, ‘trailing suction hopper dredgers’ suck up this sand from the seabed and discharge the material on the coast via pipeline, after which bulldozers spread the sand evenly across the beach.