Civil Engineering = Siviele Ingenieurswese - Volume 12, Issue 7, July 1970

This paper is a summary of an address delivered to the Cape Town Branch on August 27, 1969. It is published because of the interest and importance of the subject to the Civil Engineering Profession and because of the excellence of its presentation.

In this paper causes and effects of shore erosion are briefly discussed. Measures to restore eroded beaches and to combat shore regression are given and the severe shore erosion at Deal Party, Port Elizabeth, is descriptionbed in some detail.