Won’t the sand just wash away over time?

The purpose of the emergency works is to provide immediate protection for the Pumicestone Passage and Golden Beach coastline whilst long-term solutions are investigated and developed.

The design and scope for the immediate emergency works were informed by independent expert advice and include design principles to a one-in-10-year storm event.

If a significant weather event occurred without the emergency works intervention, additional erosion would further degrade the island, widening the breakthroughs. This would pose a significant risk to private property, essential community infrastructure and areas of natural and cultural significance within Pumicestone Passage, as well as ecological values throughout the Moreton Bay Marine Park region and associated Ramsar-listed wetland.