While usually preferred to hard engineering, beach fill is not a “silver bullet” for coastal erosion problems. This change towards “soft engineering” efforts is occurring because hard engineering projects are expensive, permanent, can cause additional erosion problems, and are unsightly. In many places, beach fill is the primary method used for property protection.
More recently, engineers and coastal communities use "soft engineering" such as beach fill, dune creation and restoration, sand scraping and dune reshaping. “Hard structures” include responses such as seawalls, groins and jetties. For a long time, coastal engineers preferred "hard structures" to protect coastal property. Beach fill is typically a response to coastal erosion that threatens to undermine property, buildings, and infrastructure. It is also known as beach renourishment, beach replenishment, and beach dredge and fill. This paper details the costs and benefits of beach fill and provides a comprehensive list of references on the topic.īeach fill refers to the process of placing sand on a beach where it previously eroded. There are many issues involved with beach fill that local citizens should understand so they can decide whether beach fill is appropriate for their beach. Beach fill is an engineering method to address coastal erosion that is becoming a more common erosion response tool considered by many coastal managers, public agencies, engineers and coastal residents. Surfrider Foundation’s Board of Directors decided to use the term "beach fill" to describe this process of engineering beaches. Surfrider wrote this paper to educate coastal activists about "beach nourishment." Many coastal experts believe the term "beach nourishment" is a misleading term and that these projects should be called "beach dredge and fill projects" to reveal their true impact on the beach.
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