'Experimental' Balluta Bay temporarily closed

Balluta Bay has been temporarily closed, the Malta Tourism Authority and the Ministry for Tourism said.
They said in a statement that they have been observing the expected changes happening at the newly nourished bay. They noted that the various coastal constructions present in the bay's vicinities have, over the years, altered wave dynamics.
The beach nourishment project, they said, was experimental and purposely designed to gain understanding on the way such temporarily nourished beaches would react during summer and under specific storm conditions.
The main aim of the project was to test the feasibility of dredging sand from the same bay, rather than importing alien sand material from abroad. A second aim was to test the stability of the nourished beach over summer and over time once the stormy season starts.
The beach, they said, was monitored on a quasi-daily basis and the monitoring would continue over the following weeks and months, so as to acquire the necessary knowledge to assess the project in its totality.
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