The management strategies implemented to preserve Lady Robinsons Beach are effective to a certain extent.
Government agencies, councils and locals uniting together will resolve issues ensuring there is sustainability and social justice in decisions and actions made for the future of Lady Robinson Beach and Botany Bay as a whole.
- Building groynes and seawalls are extremely costly and a visual eyesore; they may also increase the impacts. The money should be spent towards a sustainable development, where it would protect the beach in the long term.
- The dune stabilisation, beach nourishment and placement of groynes have had a great impact on erosion and the wearing away of sand on Lady Robinson Beach.
- Beach nourishment is an effective strategy because the sand used best matched the natural beach material. However sand must come from another beach and it may have an environmental impact in that location.
- However, the issue of erosion and pollution due to storm water runoff, has not yet been properly addressed and this could become an issue in years to come.
- Groynes have proven their effectiveness due to the wider paths of the beach compared to the narrow areas effected by erosion. Although it does aid in stopping the narrowing of the beach and is a great spot for fishing, groynes also make the beach form a particular shape — narrow where the sand has eroded, and wider where it has been deposited.
- Although regeneration programs are a good plan in the long-term, it will take a while for the plants to grow enough to make a difference in stabilising the sand. In the mean time, the plants have to be held in place by mesh and irrigated. They also require high maintenance.
- The fences on the other hand, help in not only keeping the vegetation that is already there but also making sure that it is able to grow back.
Government agencies, councils and locals uniting together will resolve issues ensuring there is sustainability and social justice in decisions and actions made for the future of Lady Robinson Beach and Botany Bay as a whole.