Managing Adelaide's beaches

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Video: The biggest seagrass restoration trial in Australia is being done in SA

Coasts

The South Australian Government is delivering 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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Latest news

$1 million in grants available to protect regional coastline

20 September 2021

$1 million in grants is now available to help repair, restore and sustain the state’s regional coastal areas under the State Government’s Securing the future of our regional coastline initiative.

Wildflowers bloom on Yorke Peninsula

15 September 2021

The SA Government is looking to explore partnership opportunities with new organisations to maximise visitor and research offerings at the new $10 million Western KI Parks Visitor Hub on Kangaroo Island, with a ROI opportunity now open.

O’Sullivan Beach confirmed for second metro shellfish reef

10 September 2021

O’Sullivan Beach has been chosen as the location for Adelaide’s second metropolitan native shellfish reef.

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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.