Ho-Shong Hou
Deputy Minister, Ministry of Economic Affairs, Taiwan
Title: Coastal Morphological Changes of the Hualien Protected Beach on the Eastern Coast Zones of Taiwan
Biography
Biography: Ho-Shong Hou
Abstract
Hualien Coast, facing the Pacific Ocean, is located in the middle east coast of Taiwan. It is bounded by the Meilum River in the north, the Hualien River in the south and is nearby the west out-skirt breakwater of Port of Hualien as shown in Figure 1. After completion of extending the Eastern Outer Breakwater in 1989, the Hualien Protected Beaches (the downstream of Hualien Harbour Entrance) have very marvelous supernatural change. The southern concave shoreline is scouring and retreating severly, very seriously affecting the coastal morphological changes. Therefore South Bin (Shores) need to be protected by detached breakwaters (built by the Link Block) and reclaimed beaches(by dredging river sand) behind the detached breakwaters to stabilise the Sout Bin, optimal solution of countermeasures are performed.