Tweed Head River Surpassing System Analysis

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The Tweed Head River bypassing system started getting built in 2001 and was fully developed in 2008. The Tweed head river bypass was created to keep a safe, crossable entrance to the tweed river and also to reestablish and uphold the coastal sand for the southern gold coast beaches in Queensland. The Tweed head river bypass works by sand being collected by the southern side of Tweed River at Letitia Spit entrance, and pumps the sand under the river to vents on the northern side. From there currents and waves, move the sand causing the Gold Coast Beaches to become nourished with sand. The two perspectives I am going to be talking about in this paper is the local surf community point of view and the tourism point of view and the environmental, …show more content…

The bypass system is a positive thing for tourism, because if there were no bypass there would be not as much tourism, which would affect economy of the Gold coast. The bypass means that the beaches are sandy and magnificent which appeals to the tourist, therefore the increase of the amount of people visiting the area means that the local business increases their sales and become more profitable and the economy booms. The impact of tourism due to the bypass affects the environment, because the pollution increases and the crowds increase, there is also an increase of buildings. The social impact of tourisms is that because the bypass is making the beaches nicer, the Gold coast beaches are over packed as well as the streets, restaurants and hotels. Causing the Gold coast to become over populated and not enough room for everyone to live near the beach. In the future because the tourism is so massive in the Gold Coast the beaches will become polluted, not as well looked after and more building near the beaches causing the beaches to become less magnificent and this means less tourism, triggering the economy to go