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Location
We choose
NarrowNeck, as did our Gold Coast
City Council, for the site for our first Gold Coast artificial
reef, as:
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It would help protect the most vulnerable
part of the Gold Coast's coastline
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At the time this was a pressing issue with
severe beach erosion threatening the road link between Surfers and
Main Beach.
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Hence the project had
a chance of getting funding.
There was (and is) a pressing need for decent waves, in
particular the sort of waves produced by a point on the Northern
end of the Gold Coast.
Placement:
The placement of 'our' artificial surf reef
was, give or take a few meters, remarkably similar to the place
finally chosen by our GCCC.
Design:
Our
design, a lop sided triangle, long side to the North with the
apex pointing slightly South East was designed to take advantage
of our frequent S.E. East winds and the sand bearing
Southerly currents with provision for the afternoon Northlerly sea
breezes. We anticipated that a sand bar would form at the tip of our
reef and would run towards the north -as shown by the sand bars
developed on the northern wall of the Southport
seaway......Eventually creating a structure similar to Arugum Bay,
Sri Lanka- a point with a long gentle inward curve (concave) with
waves created by the dominant Southerly swells wrapping around the
point.....
Our design as
published in 1988
The
base of the triangle 300 meters out and parallel to the
shoreline
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