Projects

Projects

South Wave Break Island Channel Dredging Project

The Gold Coast Waterways Authority is working to improve navigational access around our waterways by dredging the South Wave Break Island Channel. The dredged material will be reused to nourish foreshores of the Broadwater.

Annual Maintenance Painting: Sand Bypass System Jetty

The Gold Coast Sand Bypass Jetty will commence the annual maintenance painting program with the entire structure to be re-painted at once for the first time in 2025.

Waterways Place Strategy

Gold Coast Waterways Authority is developing the Waterways Place Strategy to faciltate future planning, investment decision-making and management activity both for our Gold Coast waterways.

Marine Stadium Recreational Uses Trial Project

Gold Coast Waterway Authority (GCWA) is undertaking a trial of a waterways management option that aims to support a broader range of recreational uses within Marine Stadium, located at the Top of The Spit, Main Beach.

Information on current projects on The Spit can be viewed here – The Spit Gold Coast.

Completed projects

2024

Sand Bypass System Jetty Upgrade

North Channel and South Channel Dredging Project

Muriel Henchman Park Improvements

Murlong Crescent recreational boating facility replacement

Cavill Avenue Pontoon Repair

Isle of Capri Boat Ramp Upgrade

Navigational aids major maintenance and renewal

2023

Oxenford Pacific Highway pontoon and boat ramp upgrade project 

Marine Stadium Jetty and Pontoon

Coomera River Channel Dredging

Seaway Dredging Project

Alberton Pontoon module replacement

Jabiru Island boat ramp upgrade

Southport Broadwater Parkland pontoon repairs

West Crab Island Channel (North) Dredging

2022

Gold Coast seaway – north & south channel dredging

Proud Park Pontoon replacement

Sand Bypass System – Annual jetty maintenance painting (2018 – 2022)

Sand Bypass System – high voltage switch gear

Tipplers Pontoon replacement

2021

The Seaway Promenade, The Spit

Alberton boat ramp upgrade

Jacobs Well Infrastructure Upgrade

Jacobs Well Main Channel (north & South) dredging

2020

Sand Bypass System jetty upgrade

West Crab Island channel dredging project

Underwater Remote Operator Vehicle (ROV)

Seagrass Light Sensitives Study

Smart Camera Trial

2019

Alberton – New pontoon

Coomera dredged sediment management facility

Palm Beach – Osprey nesting platform 

Sandback Study in Southern Broadwater

South Wave Break Island dredging project

2018

Canalpa Passage navigational access

Doug Jennings Park ongoing infrastructure improvements – Stage 4

Labrador channel & north channel dredging

Paradise Point pontoon upgrade

2017

Doug Jennings Park ongoing infrastructure improvements – Stage 3

Economic and Social Values of the Waterways

Muriel Henchman Park Pontoon upgrade

Sand Bypass System Stage 2 – supply & install new high pressure pump

Seaway south emergency access

2016

Biggera Creek and Broadwater foreshore

Cabbage Tree Point dredging

North, South and South Wave Break Island channels maintenance

Navigational aids major maintenance and renewal

Seagrass Light Sensitivities Report

Surfers Paradise Revitalisation – Appel Park

Tipplers Passage Boating Facility Improvements

Tipplers Passage dredging

2015

Colman Road Boat Ramp Renewal

Currigee – new maintenance vessel

Doug Jennings Park Toilet Block