Landreclamation at the coastal area of Kuantan (Malaysia)

Landreclamation at the coastal area of Kuantan (Malaysia)

Burgers, S.H.

Bijker, E.W. (mentor)

Civil Engineering and Geosciences

Hydraulic Engineering

1988-06-01

Kuantan, a city on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia, faces two main problems. First, the fishing port of Kuantan, in the mouth of the river Sungai Kuantan, has the difficulty of a shallow port entrance. Secondly, the city Kuantan wants to stimulate tourism, for example by building a recreation park at the coastal area. This report investigates whether it will be possible to construct a breakwater serving these two problems. The future breakwater on the north side of the approach channel to the harbour must on one hand create possibilities for land reclamation between this breakwater and the original coastline. On the other hand the breakwater has to improve the accessibility öf the approach channel. The reclaimed land can possibly serve as the area for a future recreation park. The improved approach channel has to keep Kuantan one of the main fishing ports on the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia.

Kuantan
breakwater
reclamation
ports
fishing port

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 1988 Burgers, S.H.