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Beach Restoration of Coastal Town to Increase Tourism
This paper describes the use of Geotextile tubes for shoreline protection of a coastal town, to increase economical activities. The project was originated from serious erosion of an entire coastline, a situation which worsened in 2007 with the Cold Front 4, causing severe losses in buildings and major lagoons that represent an important aquaculture production source. From this event the authorities took emergency measures to stem the damage, by developing a first stage recovery in 2008 with the installation of Geotextile tubes to protect 300 linear meters of the coastline. In February 2012 was developed a second stage of more than 2,000 linear meters of Geotextile tubes. Once this second stage was completed, the area faced strong winds and high waves of Tropical storm Ernesto in July 2012, where over the more than 2 km of protection, scour was observed only at the junction between two tubes. Due to the effective performance of this Technology in the present case, we conclude that the success in coastal protection and recovery of the beaches is related to the Geotube® Technology units manufacture processes, design characteristics and installation process.
Beach Restoration of Coastal Town to Increase Tourism
This paper describes the use of Geotextile tubes for shoreline protection of a coastal town, to increase economical activities. The project was originated from serious erosion of an entire coastline, a situation which worsened in 2007 with the Cold Front 4, causing severe losses in buildings and major lagoons that represent an important aquaculture production source. From this event the authorities took emergency measures to stem the damage, by developing a first stage recovery in 2008 with the installation of Geotextile tubes to protect 300 linear meters of the coastline. In February 2012 was developed a second stage of more than 2,000 linear meters of Geotextile tubes. Once this second stage was completed, the area faced strong winds and high waves of Tropical storm Ernesto in July 2012, where over the more than 2 km of protection, scour was observed only at the junction between two tubes. Due to the effective performance of this Technology in the present case, we conclude that the success in coastal protection and recovery of the beaches is related to the Geotube® Technology units manufacture processes, design characteristics and installation process.
Beach Restoration of Coastal Town to Increase Tourism
Diaz, A.H. (author) / Trainer, E. (author) / Stephens, T. (author) / Arriaga-Noguez, A. (author)
2013
11 Seiten, Bilder, Tabellen
Conference paper
Storage medium
English
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