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Coasts

The South Australian Government has announced a new investment in both metropolitan and regional coasts with:

Additional sand, including sourcing around 500,000 cubic metres of external sand from outside of Adelaide for the metropolitan coastline.
Building a sand recycling pipeline from Semaphore to West Beach, as well as sand dune restoration and revegetation in partnership with local councils and community groups.
Support for regional coasts to help repair, restore and sustain them in partnership with local councils.

The State Government is also restoring lost seagrass, working with local councils to limit damaging stormwater run-off from entering Gulf St Vincent, research and development and building a new reef. Find out more here.

Find out about works on Adelaide's beaches.
Read FAQs about the Securing the Future of our Coastline project.
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Ngarrindjeri lead community on tour of the Kurangk (Coorong)

04 June 2021

Members of the Coorong, Lower Lakes and Murray Mouth (CLLMM) - Community Advisory Panel joined staff from the Department for Environment and Water to take part in a Ngarrindjeri-led tour of the Kurangk (Coorong) this week.

Sand movement set to replenish Semaphore South dunes

03 June 2021

Sand movement work gets underway today to replenish dunes at Semaphore South, north of the Point Malcolm breakwater. The dunes suffered erosion following bad weather and high tides last week.

Native species Bounceback through outback program funding

25 May 2021

Threatened species recovery in the Flinders Ranges has received a boost with a new $600,000 funding partnership for the Bounceback program – on the eve of its 30th year of operation.

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Acknowledgement of Country

The Department for Environment and Water acknowledges Aboriginal people as the First Peoples and Nations of the lands and waters we live and work upon and we pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging. We acknowledge and respect the deep spiritual connection and the relationship that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people have to Country.

The Department works in partnership with the First Peoples of South Australia and supports their Nations to take a leading role in caring for their Country.