Sand pumping along Adelaide's coast

Sand pumping uses pumping stations and underground pipelines to transfer a slurry of sand and seawater from beaches where sand is building up, to beaches where sand is eroding.

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Two sections of Adelaide’s coast have sand pumping infrastructure – Glenelg to Kingston Park and the Torrens Outlet to the West Beach dunes.

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As part of the state government’s additional $48.4 million investment in our beaches and coast, a sand recycling pipeline will be built from Semaphore to connect to the existing infrastructure at Torrens Outlet. The pipeline will provide a long term solution to keeping sand on our most exposed and vulnerable beaches.

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The exact location of the pipeline and how it will be built will be determined in the planning and design period starting in 2019-20. Construction is expected to commence in 2021/22 and expected completion in 2022/23. Find out more.

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Register your interest to learn more at a community bus tour and see the Glenelg to Kingston Park pipeline in action.Tours will run between June and October 2020.

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For further information
https://www.environment.sa.gov.au/topics/coasts/managing-adelaides-beaches/sand-pumping