Roles and Objectives of Division.

• Identification of the problematic Areas, pertaining to the erosion at open beaches, River Mouths etc.,
• Coastal Engineering Division office acts as a link between the director’s office and sub- divisions in terms of collection, assessing and compilation of the coastline data and providing solutions to the erosion prone regions
• Collection of the Erosion Site Details, and intensity of the erosion.
• To carry out works entrusted by technical experts committee on flood control and ASE works constituted by Government of Karnataka as a member of the committee.
• Conducting the monthly review meeting of subdivisions for the progress achieved.
• Periodical visiting of the on-going and completed permanent sea wall sties for the evaluation of the performance of the sea walls for Tidal Actions.
• Identified the chainages of the coast line villages, by procuring the maps from district NRDMS
• Calling of Tenders pertaining to the Beach Profile surveys and Offset Surveys.

Strengths

• Coastal Engineering Division has capable of carrying out the research activities and data collection pertaining to the coastal region of Karnataka.
• Can take up the Pre and Post Dredging survey operations at the ports including calculation the dredging volume preparation of 3D- Bathymetric maps.
• Beach Profile Survey data comparison for the assessing the beach contour movement, sand volume estimates and average beach profile line establishment.