MACLEAY FORESHORE

MAJOR PROTECTION WALL AND WORKS NOW FINALLY COMPLETED

Major works on the badly eroded Macleay Island foreshore have now been completed.

The 90 metres of reparation have been finished to the large area adjacent to the island barge ramp.

The area has been of considerable notoriety and interest for some years.

It took continual calls from island families close to the undermined and eroded foreshore, and several stories in this publication, to finally have the unique area protected adequately.

Work started on the foundations to the foreshore work in late November and was scheduled to be completed by the end of February.

The project was very close to its designated schedule.

Getting to this point has taken some time; years in fact!

It was not until the Redland City Council’s most recent 2024/25 budget revealed  $4,486,000 had been allocated for Marine and Foreshore erosion issues, including the Macleay Island foreshore in question

The Friendly Bay Islander highlighted the issue on a number of occasions over the years, revealing more than 10 metres of foreshore had  succumbed to the ferry, barge and waterway activity in the area.

It took a Queensland Government Coast Protection Notice to finally encourage Redland City Council to act.

The Coastal Protection Notice was issued by the Chief Executive of the Department to take the action stated in the notice to protect land from  activity within a Coast Management District i.e. land situated on Brighton Road Harbour, Brighton Road, Macleay Island.

The Protection Notice declared that ‘reasonable action’ needed to be taken to protect the land in question.

It pointed the finger directly at vessel movements accelerating the erosion on the foreshore adjacent to the Macleay barge ramp.

The protection works, now complete, have been extensive.

The protection involved several layers of protective rock: smaller to the back; larger to the front

• The almost completed 90 metre section of rock wall.