Beach Monitoring Project
NEXT MONITORING SESSION
Whole beach measurement - 3 May
Beach monitoring is a major project for the Port Fairy Coastal Group. The monitoring provides detailed information to Moyne Shire Council and State Government Agencies for use in developing a response to erosion and predicted rises in sea level. Every six weeks we use a drone to accurately measure beach profiles along 4km of East Beach. The table to the right illustrates recent changes against historic data see here for explanation, or here for historic data.
Other reports from PFCG AGM 2023
Technical Report by David Bills-Thompson
Dr Blake Allan's report
News
DIARY
3 May Drone monitoring
Meet 7.30am Battery Hill Carpark
16 May Committee meeting 7pm venue TBC
Please find the Chairman's Report for 2023 here. PFCG would like to welcome Pat Davitt as the new Chairman. He replaced retiring Chairman Nick Abbott at the AGM on 28th September 2023.
National Landcare Network report on PFCG
Students from Port Fairy Consolidated School and St Patrick's Primary School carrying out laser measurement of sand levels at Pea Soup and South Beach
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.
Gallery
Our collection of photographs reflect the diversity of views of our esturary and coastline.
Quick Summary Table
Projects
Year 6 School Science project
Year 6 Science Project
Next Monitoring session - Term 2
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