CLIENTS
Manly Council (now Northern Beaches Council), Waverley, Woollahra and Mosman Councils, Sutherland Shire Council and Shoalhaven City Council
LOCATIONS
Foreshore coastal cliff lines and seawalls in the various Council areas.

Our involvement

Walkover assessments from safe vantage points on land and using boat access, selected geotechnical investigations including boreholes and test pits targeting specific sections of seawalls, design of stabilization measures and directing construction of the stabilisation measures.

Project challenge

Providing an effective overview of the foreshore cliff lines and seawalls under tight budget and time constraints and developing the geotechnical aspects of emergency action plans in partnership with the lead coastal engineering consultants.

Our solutions

JK Geotechnics completed risk analyses in accordance with AGS 2007 guidelines, seawall stability analyses and provided detailed design solutions for seawall remediation and potentially unstable sections of cliff lines in popular and highly populated foreshore areas.