Seaweed still piles up at this Busselton beach every winter but residents say new techniques are paying off after years of expensive failures.
Mr O'Brien said techniques such as "slotting", which involved a bulldozer ploughing channels in the seaweed, had made a big difference.
"The department was pleased to receive feedback from local community group leaders who believed the successful works provided the best beach amenity since the construction of the Port Geographe breakwaters in the mid-1990s," she said.A storm in 2017 left about 40,000 cubic metres of seagrass on the Busselton beach.The original design of the marina had rock structures heading straight out to sea, which interrupted the natural migration of seaweed down the coast.
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