A special beach nourishment project to recreate the coastline has been introduced by the Coast Conservation Department (CCD) for the first time in Sri Lanka to combat coastal erosion, CCD Deputy Director (Planning) Gamini Hewage told the Daily News..
He noted that a one km coastal stretch from Palliyawatte to Uswetakeyyawa had initially been selected to carry out this project.
Under this project, sand pumped from the deep sea will be used to fill the coastline recreating the beach. This is done using a sand pump vessel.

PANJIM: Union Minister for Tourism Subodh Kant Sahai has said that issues pertaining to garbage treatment and lack of proper sewerage system need to be tackled as a mission such that Goa can proudly claim that it has the cleanest beaches in the world.

Sahai, who is in Goa for the 42nd International Film Festival of India, gave assurances to Goa Chamber of Commerce and Industry, that Centre will give every possible support in this direction.

The ruling Biju Janata Dal, which faces the allegation of facilitating land grabbing bids by party men, industrial houses bureaucrats — both serving and retired — has at last done some face saving exercise. It has restored 1,301 acres of prime land on Puri beach to government, nearly 65 km from here.

The recovered lands, the current market price of which is estimated to be `1,300 crore, were fraudulently transferred to private individuals by some revenue department officials in connivance with some top influential local politicians.

The residents of Chellanam are trying to overcome the fate of forever being on the fringes of development priorities by forming a project to tap the tourism potential of their village.

Ask Chennai's fisherfolk and they will tell you that the road to hell is built on stilts. Various Central and state government agencies plan to construct three controversial expressways on stilts in the coastal city. These roads will displace more than 1 lakh people — mostly urban poor — and create a 100 km maze of elevated expressways, all of which will be built over river banks and the city’s famed beaches.

Environmentalists say spill will affect mangroves

Authorities said on Monday that the oil spill from the bulk carrier mv Rak that sank recently is a minor incident, but environmentalists nonetheless said that its timing was a cause for concern, especially in the context of mangroves' ecology.