Have your say: colour options for the Kings Beach wall
Final design is some way off, but we would like the community to be involved early in decisions about how the structure will look. With our engineering consultants we have prepared three indicative finishes for the beach-side face of the wall, all achievable in coloured concrete.
| Sandstone | A warm neutral intended to complement the sand. |
| Driftwood | A mid grey with a board-marked texture, which may also help discourage graffiti. |
| Seafoam | A pale green-grey, intended to keep a connection with the ocean from the beach side. |
The ocean-facing side of the wall will be left in natural concrete.
A pink finish
A pink finish was suggested at our market stall, with reference to pink lakes such as Hutt Lagoon and Lake Hillier in Western Australia. Those lakes take their colour from salt-tolerant microbes, most commonly the alga Dunaliella salina, which grows in water of up to about 35 per cent salt and does well there because little else survives. The Technical Advisory Panel considered that this was not the association intended, and pink has not been shortlisted.
How to respond
Use the contact form. Feedback will be summarised in the next revision of DKB-ENG-005.
The Kings Beach Salt Runoff Containment Proposal is a proposal to build a 6 metre concrete wall between the sand and the sea at Kings Beach, Broken Head, NSW, to stop salt reaching the ocean. It has not been approved and no works are scheduled.