Billboards erected around the coast to build awareness for the updated Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Barbados

The CZMU has erected billboards at several important recreational and cultural sites along the coast of Barbados to build awareness for the upcoming Public Consultation Meetings for the Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan (2020-2030). All of the information on the billboards has been derived from Volume 2 of the draft Plan (Part D) located on the ICZM Plan page. The billboards are situated at:

Silver Sands (near the beach facility)
Conset Bay (near the fish market)
Bathsheba (near the beach facility)
River Bay (near the beach facility)
Folkestone (near to the lifeguard hut)
Bay Street (near to the lifeguard hut)
Oistins (near to the lifeguard hut at Enterprise Beach)

Silver Sands, Christ Church

Conset Bay, St. John

Bathsheba, St. Joseph

River Bay, St. Lucy

Folkestone Marine Park, St. James

Bay Street, St. Michael

Oistins, Christ Church

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Public Education and Outreach

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Glossary of Terms

Eutrophication

Increased primary production caused by the anthropogenic enrichment of a water body with nutrients. (See also primary production and nutrients ).

Beach Profile

A cross-sectional plot of a shore-normal topographic and geomorphic beach survey, usually in comparison to other survey dates to illustrate seasonal and longer-term changes in beach volume.

Continental Shelf

The zone bordering a continent extending from the line of permanent immersion to the depth, usually about 100 m to 200 m, where there is a marked or rather steep descent toward the great depths of the ocean.

The region of the oceanic bottom that extends outward from the shoreline, with an average slope of less than 1:100, to a line where the gradient begins to exceed 1:40 (the continental slope).

Refraction (of water waves)

The process by which the direction of a wave moving in shallow water at an angle to the contours is changed: the part of the wave advancing in shallower water moves more slowly than that part still advancing in deeper water, causing the wave crest to bend toward alignment with the underwater contours.

The bending of wave crests by currents.

Station, control

A point on the ground whose horizontal or vertical location is used as a basis for obtaining locations of other points.

Littoral Cell

A reach of the coast that is isolated sedimentologically from adjacent coastal reaches and that features its own sources and sinks. Isolation is typically caused by protruding headlands, submarine canyons, inlets, and some river mouths that prevent littoral sediment from one cell to pass into the next.

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Billboards erected around the coast to build awareness for the updated Integrated Coastal Zone Management Plan for Barbados