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    Coastal Problem in Malaysia

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    Terengganu, Malaysia has experienced significant beach erosion along its 244km coastline, damaging homes, infrastructure, and tourism. Over the past six years, 62% of Terengganu's coastline has been eroded due to strong waves during monsoon season. Various solutions exist to mitigate beach erosion, including port-a-bag earth bag walls, breakwaters, gabions, groynes, revetments, and seawalls, each with their own advantages and disadvantages for protecting against erosion.

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    Coastal Problem in Malaysia

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    Terengganu, Malaysia has experienced significant beach erosion along its 244km coastline, damaging homes, infrastructure, and tourism. Over the past six years, 62% of Terengganu's coastline has been eroded due to strong waves during monsoon season. Various solutions exist to mitigate beach erosion, including port-a-bag earth bag walls, breakwaters, gabions, groynes, revetments, and seawalls, each with their own advantages and disadvantages for protecting against erosion.

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    Terengganu, Malaysia has experienced significant beach erosion along its 244km coastline, damaging homes, infrastructure, and tourism. Over the past six years, 62% of Terengganu's coastline has been eroded due to strong waves during monsoon season. Various solutions exist to mitigate beach erosion, including port-a-bag earth bag walls, breakwaters, gabions, groynes, revetments, and seawalls, each with their own advantages and disadvantages for protecting against erosion.

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    Coastal Problem in Malaysia

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    Norazreen NorAzhar
    Terengganu, Malaysia has experienced significant beach erosion along its 244km coastline, damaging homes, infrastructure, and tourism. Over the past six years, 62% of Terengganu's coastline has been eroded due to strong waves during monsoon season. Various solutions exist to mitigate beach erosion, including port-a-bag earth bag walls, breakwaters, gabions, groynes, revetments, and seawalls, each with their own advantages and disadvantages for protecting against erosion.

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    Coastal Problem in Malaysia (Beach Erosion)

    Problem :

    Terengganu has the best beaches in Peninsular Malaysia, but some


    beaches in Terengganu experiencing the coastal erosion. Tok Jembal
    beach was once popular because of its soft , and fine sand but now there
    is nothing left of that, it is a silver of sand that ends in a tumble of rocks.
    According to MP Datuk Dr Khairuddin Aman Razali, over the past six years
    it has damaged the homes of villagers, food stalls and roads. A study by
    the Department of Irrigation and Drainage (DID) shows that 62% of the
    states 244km coastline is being eroded. The main cause is strong waves
    during the monsoon season.

    Solution:

    1) Port-a-Bag Earth Bag Wall


    Made from high strength textile that bare pentagon shaped cells
    that linked together. It provides a sustainable solution for use as a
    large retaining wall, gravity wall, flood barrier system, shoreline
    erosion barrier and others. It is easy installation and the bag can be
    filled with dirt, sand, rocks, cement for long time cost savings.

    2) Break water
    Break water is a way of protecting against long shore drift. Break
    waters is used to reduce the power of the wave. They are built to
    protect a beach that is sloping. The depth of the water and tidal
    range depend weather its fixed or floating. The advantage of the
    breakwater structure is that the waves wont be as eroding.
    Unprotected areas of the beach will not receive any new sediment
    and the beach may shrink slowly.
    3) Gabions
    Gabions is a strong wire cage with pebbles, stones and rocks inside.
    Gabions protect the coast line by stopping the waves hitting the
    cliffs. It reduces the power of the waves when it hits the small rocks
    inside the cage. Gabions are made out of natural materials and are
    very cheap. The disadvantage of gabion are they can take up a lot
    of space, and when the rocks and stones all erode, the whole cadge
    will have to be taken away and replaced.

    4) Groynes
    Groynes are fences that go along the beach at angles to prevent
    long shore drift. The energy from the waves is absorbed in the
    groynes. It also catches and traps sediment to prevent it from
    moving up the beach. The advantage of groynes that it slows down
    long shore drift. The groynes have to be replaced every 15-20 years

    5) Revetments
    Revetments are sloping structures placed on banks or cliffs in such a
    way as to absorb the energy of incoming water. They catch
    sediment from long shore drift which helps to build up a beach. The
    disadvantage of revetments is it stops the rest of the beach further
    down from getting any more sediment, so the beach may become
    smaller.

    6) Sea Walls
    Seawalls are a curved concrete walls that stop strong waves hitting
    the cliffs. It protects the foot of the cliff from erosion and can also
    prevent flooding. They are expensive to built and it makes the back
    swash very strong when the wave hiots the seawall.

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