Countermeasures against beach erosion on the Amanohashidate Coast
富樫宏次*、寺尾忠勝**、山下正貴***
H. togashi*、 T. terao**、 M. yamashita***
京都府港湾課、**・***京都府港湾事務所
*Kyoto Prefectural Port Division, **・***Kyoto Prefectural Port Office
beach erosion, countermeasure against beach erosion, sand bypassing, shore protection
The Amanohashidate Coast, which lies deep in Miyazu Bay along the west of shore of the Tango Peninsula in the north of Kyoto Prefecture, is a sand spit extending 20 - 170m in width and 3.6km in length. The coast has the predominant direction of sediment transport. Therefore, when the longshore sediment transport was interrupted on the updrift side by construction of breakwaters in two harbors, coastal erosion inevitably and immediately took place on the downdrift side. Since 1951, investigation had carried out, and the following three methods were in turn applied as countermeasures against beach erosion on the coast: groin works, artificial nourishment method and sand bypassing method.
Groin consisting of 60 small and large ones had been constructed over about 25 years since 1951. Through 1979 to 1985, beaches had been filled with approximately 80,000m3 of nourishment sand simultaneously with groin works. Furthermore, after 1985, application of sand bypassing method introduced first in Japan as examined and resultingly the method was used on a full scale after implementation of bypassing. The sand bypassing project on the Amanohashidate Coast results to protect the shoreline on the coast having the scenic beauty created by pine-tree lines and white sand from beach erosion and has attained success by and large .