Beaches, waterways and wetlands
Gold Coast City is famous for our beautiful beaches and waterways - our unique aquatic environment is one of the main attractions for residents and visitors alike.Council provides a wide range of facilities to help you enjoy our waterways and beaches as well as services and infrastructure to maintain them and regulations to protect them.
We ask everyone to respect our marine environment to and play their part in ensuring it remains clean and healthy.
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What Council is doing
Through catchment management, coastal protection, beach maintenance and pollution and stormwater control measures, Council aims to safeguard our waterways and beaches from environmental harm. Council monitors the health of our waterways and marine and freshwater species and promotes water sensitive urban design to improve the quality of the stormwater that flows to the ocean, with a range of initiatives to protect our beaches and dunes from erosion.
We regularly clean our beaches and promote litter prevention and run a range of revegetation and rehabilitation projects to improve the riparian environment along our river and creek banks and in our wetlands. Council provides many facilities to help you enjoy our aquatic environment - foreshore walkways, fishing and viewing platforms, boat ramps, swimming enclosures and a lifeguard service on selected ocean beaches.
What you can do
Get out and enjoy our beaches and waterways but make sure you do so responsibly. Litter and cigarette butts are big problems for the health and attractiveness of our waterways. Be stormwater responsible and consider the rubbish and pollutants that come from your own backyard. Be a responsible boatie and avoid polluting our waterways.
Why not join a Catchment Group or become a Beachcare volunteer and do your bit to keep our beaches and waterways clean and healthy for us to enjoy and marine and freshwater species to thrive in.
