Abstract:
Study on impacts of coastal development toward the beach morphology and sediment
characteristics was conducted at Dungun and Kuala Terengganu. Kuala Terengganu,
Seberang Takir and batu Buruk had been choose as study area. The study was carried out
in order to determine the beach profile and sediment characteristics pre-monsoon and
during monsoon. There are total of twelve stations, six stations at Dungun and six station
at Kuala Terengganu. Sampling was done every station the interval of distance range
500m to 1km. Transit Sokkia was used to measure beach profile properties. Meanwhile,
method of moments was employed to calculate the sedimentological parameters. Based
on the beach profile analysis, at Dungun four out of six stations undergone erosion while
other undergone deposition. At Kuala Terengganu, there are two station with are station 5
and station 6 undergone erosion, other the beach was undergone deposition. The pattern
of beach at Kuala Terengganu each station happened deposition and erosion event at
beginning or downward of beach vice versa. It proved that the decrease mean of grain
size the sand are coarse. It shows that the beach has erosion occurred. The beach
morphology change because natural phenomena (monsoon) beside, the impacts also
come from the coastal development that had been built at the beach.
