National Analysis of Nourishments; Coastal State Indicators and Driving Forces for Zandvoort-Bloemendaal, the Netherlands
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National analysis of nourishments; Coastal state indicators and driving forces for Zandvoort-Bloemendaal, the Netherlands Date: 11/08/2021 Status: Final version 1 Colophon Published by Rijkswaterstaat and Deltares Author Stef Boersen (Deltares / Royal Haskoning DHV) Tommer Vermaas (Deltares) Rinse Wilmink (Rijkswaterstaat) Quirijn Lodder (Rijkswaterstaat) Phone +31-6-31747052 E-mail [email protected] Date 02-07-2021 Status Final version Version 2.0 2 Table of Content 1 Introduction ......................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Background information ............................................................................................................... 5 1.2 Objectives .................................................................................................................................... 6 1.3 Reading guide ............................................................................................................................... 6 2 Study site ............................................................................................................................................. 7 3 Nourishment description.....................................................................................................................11 3.1 Coastal infrastructure and earlier nourishments ..........................................................................11 3.2 Studied nourishment ...................................................................................................................12 3.2.1 Beach profile .......................................................................................................................12 3.2.2 Nourishment motivation ......................................................................................................12 3.2.3 Design of nourishment and placement .................................................................................13 4 Method and data ................................................................................................................................17 4.1 Data, availability, accuracy and processing ..................................................................................17 4.1.1 Transect data .......................................................................................................................17 4.1.2 Hydrodynamic data..............................................................................................................17 4.1.3 Nourishment data ................................................................................................................18 4.2 Method .......................................................................................................................................18 4.2.1 Terminology and coastal state indicators .............................................................................18 4.2.2 Physical marks .....................................................................................................................20 4.2.3 Bar development .................................................................................................................21 4.2.4 2D volume development: Volume boxes ..............................................................................22 5 Environmental conditions/characteristics............................................................................................23 5.1 Waves .........................................................................................................................................23 5.2 Tides ...........................................................................................................................................29 5.3 Storm surges ...............................................................................................................................31 5.4 Wind ...........................................................................................................................................32 5.5 Grain size.....................................................................................................................................33 6 Source-Pathway-Receptor ...................................................................................................................34 6.1 Water ..........................................................................................................................................34 6.2 Sediment .....................................................................................................................................36 7 Results ................................................................................................................................................38 3 7.1 Qualitative Morphological development ......................................................................................38 7.1.1 Shoreface ............................................................................................................................38 7.1.2 Beach...................................................................................................................................38 7.1.3 Dunes ..................................................................................................................................39 7.2 Quantitative Morphological development ...................................................................................42 7.2.1 Physical marks .....................................................................................................................42 7.2.2 Bar development .................................................................................................................46 7.2.3 Volumes 2D .........................................................................................................................55 7.3 Relation between nourishment development and hydrodynamic characteristics .........................61 8 Synthesis .............................................................................................................................................62 8.1 Nourishment performance ..........................................................................................................62 8.2 Strategic goals .............................................................................................................................62 9 Conclusion ..........................................................................................................................................63 10 Bibliography ........................................................................................................................................64 4 1 Introduction 1.1 Background information This report is one of three reports written as the Dutch contribution to the “co-analyses of nourishments”, within the Interreg Building with Nature project work package 3; coastal resilient laboratories. In each report a single coastal laboratory is discussed. The coastal laboratories in the Netherlands are: Domburg, Zandvoort-Bloemendaal and Bergen-Egmond, see Figure 1. For each coastal laboratory a specific time window, several years after nourishment, is investigated. Each laboratory is chosen such that the dominant physical processes and type of applied nourishment are different. This report focusses on the coastal laboratory Zandvoort-Bloemendaal. The western coastline of the Netherlands mainly consists of sandy dunes combined with hydraulic structures like dams and storm surge barriers. Although the dunes are continuous eroding, they play a major part in the Dutch coastal protection system. Due to human interventions, like sand nourishments, the erosion of the coast is compensated. On average 12 million m3 of sand is placed in the coastal area of the Netherlands to balance the erosion. It suggests that sand nourishments are almost business as usual. The coastal laboratory Zandvoort-Bloemendaal is located in the middle of the Dutch western shoreline. It is located west of Amsterdam and south of the port of IJmuiden. The lab is situated at the straight coastline of Noord-Holland. Figure 1: An overview map of the coastal laboratories in the Netherlands 5 1.2 Objectives In this study the performance of the shoreface nourishment of 2004/2008 at Zandvoort-Bloemendaal is analysed. The main objective of this study is to obtain key information of the nourishment behaviour in an uniform way, to be able to compare the results with other coastal labs in the Building with Nature project. 1.3 Reading guide This report consists of 9 chapters. In Chapter 2 the study site is further explained in more detail. The specific nourishment studied in this report is discussed in Chapter 3. The procedure to analyse the nourishment and the applied data is the topic of Chapter 4. Chapter 5 is dedicated to the hydraulic conditions like waves, currents and tides. The conceptual model of source-pathway-receptor for water and sediment is given in Chapter 6. The results of the analyses are given in Chapter 7 and combined into the synthesis of Chapter 8. Finally, the conclusions are given in Chapter 9. 6 2 Study site The coastal laboratory Zandvoort-Bloemendaal contains several dune systems. These dunes formed around 5500 year ago in front of the former coast, see Figure 2. Later, the rate of sea level rise reduced and the dunes started to extend seaward.