SANDRINGHAM FORESHORE ASSOCIATION E-NEWSLETTER April 2011

HALF MOON BAY BEACH RENOURISHMENT AND SAND-BAG GROYNE IS PROPOSED BY DSE
We welcome your feedback…

SFA recently met with Doug Oldfield who has been engaged by the Department of
Sustainability and Environment (DSE) as a coastal engineer to provide detailed design for a
proposed beach renourishment project at Half Moon Bay, Black Rock.

The objectives of this project include:

· Widening of the beach to
provide improved amenity to beach-
goers and other users of the beach;
· Mitigation of wave forces on the
toe of the cliff face behind the beach to
lessen the impact of erosion of the cliff.

Although design work has only just commenced, the engineer expects the beach will be:
· widened by about 8 to 10 metres, for the full length of the beach from Red Bluff to
the masonry seawall in front of the Life Saving Club.
· A small geofabric groyne may be needed at the southern end to anchor the widened
beach.
· Construction will be by delivery
of land-sourced sand and spreading on
the beach with small mechanical plant
such as a bob-cat.
· Construction is due to
commence in June this year so the
widened beach can be available for
next summer.
· Construction during winter will
also minimise disruption to the
activities of the Yacht Club, the Life
Saving Club and the Cerberus Beach
House restaurant.
· The sand is a graded sand ranging in size from 0.3 to 2.0 mm (as tested at the
source).
· The sand has been EPA tested (reports already available) that demonstrate it is
clean, free of chemicals, harmful bacteria, contaminants etc.
 · The inclusion of a sandbag groyne has not yet been confirmed and awaits the
completion of his design work in the next couple of weeks.
· If a groyne is considered necessary, its purpose is to anchor the sand on the beach,
rather than to avoid shifts of sand to the ramps, etc. Sand will continue to circulate
around the bay through the typical coastal cycles.
· The role of the engineer is to also convey the views of stakeholders to DSE in his
report
· A public information night will be held by Council around end of May

HALF MOON BAY MASTERPLAN BY BAYSIDE CITY COUNCIL

We welcome your feedback…

Council is currently undertaking a project to investigate the redesign of the public boat ramp
next to the pier this financial year. Any upgrades as a result of the review will be reliant on
future external funding.

They propose to “Move ramps to beyond the existing seawall and remove wing walls on
land. Works to be undertaken when current ramps reach the end of their life span, subject
to detailed coastal engineering assessment.”

A survey to provide feedback for public boat ramp users can be found on Bayside City
Council website, for your information.

http://www.bayside.vic.gov.au/have_your_say.htm#Half_Moon_Bay_boat_ramp_design

Sandringham Foreshore Association profile:

Michele and Paul Hede of Sandringham

Michele was born in Sandringham, lived here for the first 4 years of her life and grew up in
Beaumaris. She has fond memories of her childhood days on the beach of fireworks,
bonfires, fairs and the community spending more time on the beach. Her teachers at Black
Rock primary school, and particularly her arts teacher, inspired her and many young
students to appreciate art and the beauty of our local environment. Michele went on to
study Fine arts at Melbourne University and Museum studies at Victorian College (formerly
known as Rusden College). So it’s not surprising she appreciates the aesthetic beauty of our
local coastline, with its sweeping shoreline and vistas, sandstone cliffs and vegetation, and
the artistic works of our famous historical artists such as Charles Conder particularly of the
painting titled ‘Sandringham’, and those painted by Arthur Boyd such as the watercolour
‘The Red Bluff at Sandringham’ and Clarice Beckett ‘Sandringham beach’. Michele says our
beautiful coastline has hardly changed since her childhood days and when studying the
paintings, apart from the new rock groynes.
 Paul was raised in Essendon and he describes his
father catching the Sandringham line to Hampton
in the 1930’s and 40’s for a holiday trip from
Flemington. So it’s not surprising Michele and
Paul were attracted to return and live in
Sandringham in one of the finest and grandest
homes on Southey St called ‘Santa Maria’ built
with a Spanish influence in the 1950’s by a local
ballet dancer who was married to a Spanish
Count. Paul is an architect and has served on the
Sandringham Foreshore Association since its
inception in 2007. As an architect he was
immediately inspired by the style of their
beautiful home which they have restored and
once was featured in Home Beautiful.

Paul and Michele say that living in Sandringham is

like always “being on holidays”. When they travel
overseas they come to appreciate what we have
here in Melbourne. They enjoy their daily walks
along the Sandringham foreshore, cruising the bay with their powerboat moored at the
Sandringham Yacht club, and with their boat visiting some of our bay towns such as
Queenscliff, Williamstown and the Docklands. They say our local Yacht club is like a “little
city and community” of its own. Michele loves the sound of the yacht masts clanking on a
windy day.
Michele and Paul love the Bayside and Sandringham foreshore and enjoy the role it plays in
the lives of local people and our visitors who come and go. Michele says it is the
“Impermanence of the people that gives a sense of permanence to the beach and how it will
be there long after we are gone, making it crucial that we plan for it in the best way possible
for the next generations”. Michele and Paul believe we are blessed to live in this beautiful
part of the world.

ARMY CADETS TRAINING ON THE SANDRIGNHAM FORESHORE

Vicki caught this photo whilst walking along Royal Avenue beach
on April 9th.
Do you have a photo that would interest our members to include
in our next e-newsletter? It could be any photo even from the
past.

Just e-mail the photo to John Amiet:

imageman@optusnet.com.au

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Dr Vicki Karalis
SFA President

John Amiet
Photographer,
SFA website master