Coastal Hazard Risk Management and Coastal Adaptation Planning

Marybrook Siesta Park Integrated Coastal Erosion Protection Strategy Project:

The City completed a Coastal Hazard Risk Management and Adaptation Plan (CHRMAP) in 2022. The purpose of the CHRMAP was to identify the current and projected extent of risk to private assets, public infrastructure, and environmental, social and cultural values from coastal hazards arising from sea level rise. The CHRMAP also provides a framework for responding to those hazards, with adaptation pathways over a 100-year timeframe.

In 2023 the City received grant funding from the State Government to undertake one of the recommendations of the CHRMAP, being the preparation of an integrated erosion protection strategy for a section of the Marybrook Siesta Park coastline.

Westpeak Engineering has been engaged to prepare the strategy, and project tasks that have been undertaken to date include a baseline assessment of past and current coastal erosion impacts, coastal processes influencing the project site, and draft concept options for managing coastal erosion.

Residents within the project area and the wider community were invited to have their say and review the proposed designs. Westpeak Engineering and Officers will now review feedback and develop the Erosion Protection Strategy.

To view the project page click here: yoursay.busselton.wa.gov.au/chrmap