Sunshine Coast Council: New seawall to help protect popular foreshore

A new seawall, built with adaptation to future climate hazards in mind, has been reconstructed at Golden Beach and installed with specially designed tiles, Sunshine Coast Council said.

The project is part of a trial with the University of the Sunshine Coast and the Queensland Government funded QCoast₂₁₀₀ Program to install and monitor a ‘living seawall’.

A $300,000 grant was provided to Council from the LGAQ towards building the new raised seawall and including the living seawall elements.

This new seawall is set to help safeguard the parkland and footpath from damage caused by storm surges, sea level rise and coastal erosion.

Sunshine Coast Council Division 2 Councillor, Terry Landsberg, said that the Council had rebuilt an aged section of the seawall that was degraded and no longer effective, between Jellicoe and Nelson Streets.

The project included reconstructing and raising approximately 80 meters of the existing seawall using grouted rock and installing special concrete tiles which aim to create a ‘living seawall’ with habitat for marine creatures.