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Beach Monitoring Project

Next drone monitoring session on East Beach

Monday 25th August 7.30am

at Battery Cove carpark

All members and interested parties are encouraged to come along to see the drone in action and meet the representative from Deakin who is managing the project. We are hopeful that PFCG will shortly be supplied with a drone which will allow us to be more autonomous in scheduling monitoring sessions and will be looking to train more members to operate the drone.

This chart shows sand height at posts 3 (Manifold Street), 6 (NE end of night soil site) and 9 (N end of tip site) over time. 

Up to about 2017, sand levels at posts 3, 6 and 9 track each other reasonably well with a slight variation in the phase of the rise and fall at each post. After 2017, post 3 has a very dramatic sand loss (the Orange line) and its still recovering.
While there is still some correlation between the levels at the posts, its not as well defined as it is prior to 2017.

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Recent drone survey shows the dune crest  behind post 9 has receded inland by nearly a metre since December.

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Gallery

Our collection of photographs reflect the diversity of views of our esturary and coastline.

See the gallery >

Year 6 School Science project
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Once or twice a term students from local primary schools join PFCG and help measure sand levels at Pea Soup and South Beach. Drones cannot be used to measure sand levels on these beaches so a laser is used to make transverse and longitudinal measurements. 

 

The council uses the data to inform its coastal protection and rehabilitation work.

 

St Patrick's Primary School and Port Fairy Consolidated School are currently involved with this project

Click here for student accounts of the project

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JOIN THE TEAM

PFCG is always on the lookout for enthusiastic new recruits to join our beach monitoring sessions. If you are interested contact us  to find out more.

Covenant College Visit

 

On Thursday 13th March, Port Fairy Coastal Group hosted a group of Year 12 Environmental Studies students from Covenant College Geelong. The group of 10 students and 2 teachers were touring the south west, exploring various natural and man-made environments, with a particular interest in the impact of human interaction with the natural environment and the history of Europe settlement in the area. We met the group at the rock wall in front of the old tip site and spoke about the challenges of that particular site, the formation of the PFCG and our ongoing beach monitoring. We then conducted a beach monitoring session with the students actively involved in the taking of measurements using the laser level and recording the data. 

Mailing address:

90 Ocean Drive, Port Fairy Vic 3284

 

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