The St Francis Bay Beach Trust was formed early in 2006 in order to manage a fully integrated approach to rehabilitating the St Francis Bay Beach. The approach is unique for a project of this size in South Africa, as community funding was raised in order to move the process forward.

This fully integrated process includes a number of distinct steps. These are:

• The Investigative Phase ( complete )

• Design and Costing ( December, 2006 )

• Construction ( planned to commence early 2007 )

ASR Limited in New Zealand were commissioned by the SFB Beach Trust to carry out the feasibility study which has been completed. This report concludes that the submerged reef/s option is both feasible and highly cost effective.

This website has been designed in order to provide all St Francis Bay residents as well as other interested parties to be fully informed of the process. In order to ensure that the information is easy to access we have split the project into its component parts being:

• The Estuary

• The Beach

• The Reefs

• Environmental Issues