Design and construction of the Boscombe multi-purpose reef

Shaw  Mead; C Blenkinsopp; Andrew Moores; Jose Borrero

Design and construction of the Boscombe multi-purpose reef

Shaw Mead, C Blenkinsopp, Andrew Moores, Jose Borrero

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Abstract

The Boscombe Reef is a multipurpose reef structure designed primarily for the enhancement of surfing amenity at
Boscombe, Poole Bay, England. The reef was designed to maximise the small and generally poor-quality surfing
wave climate of the eastern English Channel coast. The reef was constructed from 54 large, sand filledgeotextile
containers ranging in size from 1 to 5 m diameters and 15 to 70 m long with a total volume of approximately 13,000m3. Construction of the reef began in the summer of 2008, was suspended during the following winter and was
completed in the late summer of 2009. The reef is now in service and provides a high intensity right hand surfing
ride of up to 70 m and a shorter left hand ride of up to 30 m. Although the reef was not designed as a coastal
protection structure, monitoring of the morphological response supports that the reef promotes shore protection
through the formation of an inshore salien

Original language	English
Title of host publication	32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of 32nd Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China, 2010.
Editors	J McKee Smith, P Lynett
Volume	32 (2010)
Publication status	Published - 2010

Keywords

artificial reef
submerged breakwater
surfing
recreation
shore protection
salient formation

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Design and construction of the Boscombe multi-purpose reef. / Mead, Shaw ; Blenkinsopp, C; Moores, Andrew et al.
32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering: Proceedings of 32nd Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China, 2010.. ed. / J McKee Smith; P Lynett. Vol. 32 (2010) 2010.

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