Why cant a pipeline be placed that would allow sand to be pumped past Kirra?
The project has the aim of moving sand as nature intended. With the natural flow of sand onto the southern Gold Coast being by sand moving northwards around Snapper Rocks, the project mimics this by discharging sand immediately below Point Danger. • The concept of a pipeline discharging further north has been raised in community discussion as a way of achieving narrower beaches in the Greenmount to Kirra area more quickly. Such a pipeline would require an elevated, highly visible and very strong structure to be erected on the beach running seawards from near Coolangatta Creek. • The preparation of designs, planning documents, environmental impact assessments, and community consultation could take several years. Given that Kirra is showing signs of sand volume reduction as expected, by the time a new pipeline could be approved to build, the beach may have narrowed to a more natural profile, and the pipeline would not be needed. • In the Kirra Wave Study Feb 2007 report prepared for GCCC
