Environmental Engineering Reference
In-Depth Information
Fig. 3.3
A terminal groyne
retains the eastward-drifting
beach at Hengistbury Head in
Dorset. © Geostudies
Fig. 3.4
Groynes containing
sandy beach compartments
on the south coast of Botany
Bay, New South Wales.
© Geostudies
On some coasts breakwaters have been built at intervals along the shore to form
artificial headlands between beach compartments. On the SE coast of Singapore a
series of such headland breakwaters was built in the expectation that they would
allow the dominant SW waves to shape a stable beach configuration within each
