Coastal Zone Management
Council is preparing a Coastal Zone Management Plan for Wollongong. A two staged process is being used for this.
Stage One
The
first stage is complete and is the called the Coastal Zone Study. The Coastal Zone Study involved identification of the issues affecting the coastline over time, focusing in particular on the risks from coastal processes, climate change and sea level rise.
The report from the first stage has now been endorsed by Council. A major focus of the study is identification of the hazards potentially impacting on Wollongong’s coastline from coastal processes over time. The hazards considered are shoreline erosion, ocean inundation and geotechnical instability in the event of a 1 in 100 year storm and sea level rises of 40 cm to 2050 and 90 cm to 2100 above the 1990 mean sea levels. The areas potentially impacted have been mapped.
Stage Two
The
second stage considers options to manage the issues, culminating in the preparation of the Coastal Zone Management Plan, containing the best possible combination of options for Wollongong.