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Coasts

The South Australian Government is delivering investment in both metropolitan and regional coasts with:

Additional sand, including sourcing up to 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 restoring shellfish reefs. 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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Latest news

$10 million to improve waterbird habitat in the Coorong

03 December 2021

The Commonwealth and South Australian governments are investing $10 million to improve the quality and availability of waterbird habitat throughout the Ramsar-listed Coorong and Lower Lakes.

Parks of eastern Kangaroo Island celebrated this summer

01 December 2021

This December National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is celebrating the parks of eastern Kangaroo Island as its parks of the month.

Granite Island to close at night during Schoolies Week

19 November 2021

Granite Island Recreation Park will be closed at night for the 21st consecutive year throughout Schoolies Week between 19 to 21 November.

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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.