Our Coast Our Future
Thank you for sharing your feedback during round two consultation. We are reviewing your feedback and drafting reports.
Please take the time to look over the coastal hazard maps available below.
Through the Shire’s Our Coast Our Future, we’re developing a long-term plan to manage coastal hazard impacts across our region.
The Shire was awarded funding through the state government’s Victoria’s Resilient Coast grants program. This initiative aims to assist coastal land managers to deliver strategic coastal hazard risk management and adaptation.
The study area
Our Coast Our Future will include all our coastal communities along the Peninsula. We have grouped these communities into five areas. This allows us to explore community values, coastal processes and coastal hazards at a more localised scale.
Click on a region below to look a further detail related to your local area or favourite beach.
- Northern Port Phillip
- Central Port Phillip
- Southern Peninsula
- Southern Western Port
- Northern Western Port
A strategic approach to adaptation
The outcomes of this work allow us to better understand the region’s coastal hazards and possible implications for our local communities, now and into the future. With improved understanding of hazards and potential at-risk areas along our coastline, we can work to identify different ways to manage these locations through adaptation.
Our Coast Our Future will include the development of a Coastal Strategy to guide our adaptation planning and its implementation.
Understanding coastal hazards
The coastal hazards we’re assessing include erosion (sand loss), inundation (flooding) and changes to groundwater.
What are coastal hazards?
- Storm-tide inundation: temporary flooding of low-lying coastal land from elevated sea levels, often due to storm events;
- Coastal erosion: winds, waves, and coastal currents shift sediment (sand) away from the shoreline
- Permanent inundation: long-term inundation due to sea level rise (such as regular flooding from tides)
- Groundwater changes: groundwater (water table) rising nearer to the ground surface due climate change (including sea level rise). Shallow groundwater (<2m below the ground surface), is considered a hazard.
See our fact sheet series to find out more about coastal hazards.
Examining coastal hazards
We have been using range of existing coastal models, data sets and studies to estimate coastal hazards for the region. This has helped us identify areas along the Peninsula potentially impacted by different coastal hazard types for a range of current and future conditions (including sea level rise).
We have combined outputs from various coastal hazard models for the region’s marine and coastal areas. The estimated hazards are shown on the Our Coast Our Future hazard maps (see these maps in our document library).
We’re using these maps to determine coastal areas across the Mornington Peninsula that may be exposed to coastal inundation (flooding), erosion, sea level rise or changes to groundwater. The maps allow us to think about:
- what and where the hazards are
- when hazards may occur
- how they change over time
Our next steps are to assess risk and vulnerability of our coastal communities to determine where adaptation (hazard mitigation) might be necessary.
As part of our earlier engagement activities and events, we established a good appreciation of community coastal values and experiences. We’re now using a risk assessment to explore how coastal hazards might interact and impact on these important values, uses and infrastructure in the Peninsula's coastal areas.
We will be sharing these results with the community in the coming months. We are also incorporating the feedback we received in the recent round of engagement to help inform upcoming project stages when considering the roles of adaptation in managing risk.
Thank you for sharing your feedback during round two consultation. We are reviewing your feedback and drafting reports.
Please take the time to look over the coastal hazard maps available below.
Through the Shire’s Our Coast Our Future, we’re developing a long-term plan to manage coastal hazard impacts across our region.
The Shire was awarded funding through the state government’s Victoria’s Resilient Coast grants program. This initiative aims to assist coastal land managers to deliver strategic coastal hazard risk management and adaptation.
The study area
Our Coast Our Future will include all our coastal communities along the Peninsula. We have grouped these communities into five areas. This allows us to explore community values, coastal processes and coastal hazards at a more localised scale.
Click on a region below to look a further detail related to your local area or favourite beach.
- Northern Port Phillip
- Central Port Phillip
- Southern Peninsula
- Southern Western Port
- Northern Western Port
A strategic approach to adaptation
The outcomes of this work allow us to better understand the region’s coastal hazards and possible implications for our local communities, now and into the future. With improved understanding of hazards and potential at-risk areas along our coastline, we can work to identify different ways to manage these locations through adaptation.
Our Coast Our Future will include the development of a Coastal Strategy to guide our adaptation planning and its implementation.
Understanding coastal hazards
The coastal hazards we’re assessing include erosion (sand loss), inundation (flooding) and changes to groundwater.
What are coastal hazards?
- Storm-tide inundation: temporary flooding of low-lying coastal land from elevated sea levels, often due to storm events;
- Coastal erosion: winds, waves, and coastal currents shift sediment (sand) away from the shoreline
- Permanent inundation: long-term inundation due to sea level rise (such as regular flooding from tides)
- Groundwater changes: groundwater (water table) rising nearer to the ground surface due climate change (including sea level rise). Shallow groundwater (<2m below the ground surface), is considered a hazard.
See our fact sheet series to find out more about coastal hazards.
Examining coastal hazards
We have been using range of existing coastal models, data sets and studies to estimate coastal hazards for the region. This has helped us identify areas along the Peninsula potentially impacted by different coastal hazard types for a range of current and future conditions (including sea level rise).
We have combined outputs from various coastal hazard models for the region’s marine and coastal areas. The estimated hazards are shown on the Our Coast Our Future hazard maps (see these maps in our document library).
We’re using these maps to determine coastal areas across the Mornington Peninsula that may be exposed to coastal inundation (flooding), erosion, sea level rise or changes to groundwater. The maps allow us to think about:
- what and where the hazards are
- when hazards may occur
- how they change over time
Our next steps are to assess risk and vulnerability of our coastal communities to determine where adaptation (hazard mitigation) might be necessary.
As part of our earlier engagement activities and events, we established a good appreciation of community coastal values and experiences. We’re now using a risk assessment to explore how coastal hazards might interact and impact on these important values, uses and infrastructure in the Peninsula's coastal areas.
We will be sharing these results with the community in the coming months. We are also incorporating the feedback we received in the recent round of engagement to help inform upcoming project stages when considering the roles of adaptation in managing risk.
Project Timeline
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28 September 2023 to 4 March 2024
Our Coast Our Future has finished this stageStage 2 – Values Community Consultation
Community pop-ups, survey, interactive map, photo competition
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February – May 2024
Our Coast Our Future has finished this stageStage 3 – Coastal Hazard Exposure
Assess current and future coastal hazards
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June – July 2024
Our Coast Our Future has finished this stageStage 3 and 4 – Coastal Hazard Exposure and Risk Community Consultation
Knowledge sharing via community pop-ups, survey and hazard maps
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July - August 2024
Our Coast Our Future has finished this stageStage 4 - Vulnerability and Risk
Economic and risk assessments
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September 2024
Our Coast Our Future is currently at this stageProject completion
Apply evidence-based approach to identify coastal adaptation targeted townships.
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October 2024 - September 2025
this is an upcoming stage for Our Coast Our FutureProgress with stages 5 - 7 of the Victoria’s Resilient Coast Guidelines.
Sub-area maps
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Sub-area 1 - Northern Port Phillip Hazard Maps (10.2 MB) (pdf)
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Sub-area 2 Central Port Phillip Hazard Maps (12.2 MB) (pdf)
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Sub-area 3 Southern Port Phillip Hazard Maps (11.6 MB) (pdf)
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Sub-area 4 Southern Western Port Hazard Maps (13.7 MB) (pdf)
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Sub-area 5 Northern Western Port Hazard Maps (12.8 MB) (pdf)
Contact
Phone
1300 850 600
Email
coastalplanning@mornpen.vic.gov.au
In writing
Our Coast Our Future
Mornington Peninsula Shire
Private Bag 1000, Rosebud, Victoria, 3939
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