Affiliation(s)
1. Faculty of Civil Engineering and Planning, Bung Hatta University, Padang City 25133, Indonesia
2. Faculty of Economi, State University of Padang, Padang City 25132, Indonesia
3. Faculty of Engineering, State University of Padang, Padang City 25132, Indonesia
ABSTRACT
West Sumatera province has 19 cities and regencies where 6 of them often
experience abrasion and accretion disaster, because it is a coastal area directly adjacent to the Indian Ocean.
This study aims to examine the characteristics of abrasion and accretion
disasters along the coast of West Sumatera Province from 2003 to 2016. By knowing the characteristics of
abrasion and accretion from 2003 and 2016, it will be known which beaches are experiencing abrasion or accretion.
This research is qualitative and quantitative descriptive research with GIS (Geographic Information System) analysis method to get characteristic of
abrasion and accretion disaster in coastal area of West Sumatera. There has been a disaster
of abrasion and accretion in 32 points spread across 6 districts and cities,
namely West Pasaman District, Agam Regency, Padang Pariaman District, Pariaman
City, Padang City and Padang Pariaman District, an abrasion disaster in the
coastal area of West Sumatera Province of 732.69 Ha
and 55.4 Ha of acres. This proves that the abrasion debacle causes the decrease
of land in West Sumatera Province which is big enough that is average 56.3 Ha/year, while the addition of land is only 4.26 Ha/year. The farthest abrasion disasters are
located in South Pesisir Regency, which is 45.70 m or 3.52 m/year on average.
While the farthest accretion is in the South Pesisir Regency, and is as far as 36.91 m or an average of 2.84 m/year.
KEYWORDS
Abrasion, accretion, coastal, disaster, West Sumatera.
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