Meeting papers

AttachmentAppendix Two: Linked projects and programs
Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan – Implementation (Commenced)

The CHAP implementation program lists and prioritises actions and tasks associated with the
CHAP’s five-year plan and adaptation pathway response for each locality. The Eastern Beaches
Foreshore Reserves Management Plan has been identified as a priority addressing risks identified
as ‘Very High’ through the CHAP process.

Coastal Monitoring Plan (Commenced)

As part of its strategy to manage climate change impacts along the coastline, Council developed a
long-term Coastal Monitoring Plan in 2022 which sets out annual monitoring activities to:

  1. Better inform coastal management measures;
  2. Identify key areas requiring future management; and,
  3. Provide data for future coastal hazard studies.

This work responds to a key message received from the community during the development of
Council’s endorsed Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan (CHAP): that localised data collection and
monitoring of the coastal system should be prioritised in order to better understand and model the
impact of coastal hazards driven by climate change.

The monitoring plan includes a range of data collection methods including remote sensing
techniques to capture shoreline position, beach levels, beach volume, seafloor levels, vegetation
extent and density, seafloor sediment volumes, and the movement of creek outlets. The data
collection methods include upper beach surveying, photogrammetry and LiDAR topography from
drones, fixed cameras, CoastSnap citizen science sites, water-based surveys using single beam
echo sounders, and satellite-derived bathymetry. The coastal monitoring program is scheduled to
be undertaken annually, before and after the storm season.

Coastal monitoring programs under the Coastal Hazards Adaptation Plan include:

   •       CoastSnap Citizen Science Site with UNSW/UniSC at Sunshine Beach Lookout
   •       Burgess Creek Monitoring Project with UniSC
   •       Nearshore Coral Reef Monitoring with Reef Check Australia
   •       Coast4D Citizen Science Monitoring with UniSC

Other ongoing implementation projects under the CHAP include:

   •       COASTS Project with University of the Sunshine Coast/UQ/EOMAP
   •       Living Foreshores Noosa Phase 1 – Designing for Resilience
                   ▪ Noosaville Foreshore Resilience Project
                   ▪ Designing Dynamic Dunescapes
                   ▪ Coastal Wetland Prioritisation Study with UQ
   •       Regional Coastal Process Model with Sunshine Coast Council
   •       Offshore Sand Supply Investigation

For further information on these projects please refer to the project page.

Burgess Creek monitoring (Commenced)

Council’s Infrastructure, Environment Services and Climate Change branches are working with
UniSC on a monitoring project at Burgess Creek. The research aim is to investigate the reasons
behind Burgess Creek’s channel migration at event time scales (decades). The objectives of the
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