Timeline

Working collaboratively with Fremantle Ports, other state government agencies and the community, the City engaged to address erosion issues at Port Beach. A coastal adaptations report prepared for Port Beach compared five options to protect Port Beach. After detailed analysis sand nourishment via dredge was the highest ranked option.

Fremantle Council adopted a long term strategy of managed retreat for dealing with coastal erosion at Port Beach.

In conjunction with the Department of Transport and Fremantle Ports, the City has undertaken further detailed investigations and design of sand nourishment via dredge. 

$3.25million allocated to the City of Fremantle for a Port Beach large scale sand nourishment project to provide up to 10 years of protection.

To prepare for the sand nourishment program, the City has engaged a contractor to undertake screening of sand within Sandtrax Beach and the southern 200m of Port Beach, south of Tydeman Road, to remove small rocks and excavate and remove large rock from the remnant seawall.  

Phase 2 of the project will require several approvals including consulting with the Environmental Protection Agency. Approvals are anticipated by the end of 2021.

To supply suitable sand for beach nourishment, 150,000m³ of sand will be dredged from the Fremantle Ports Deep Water Channel and placed onto Port Beach.