Development of Coastal Protection Scheme Database for Peninsular Malaysia

Nowadays, coastal erosion along the Malaysia shorelines had become a major
issue. Global warming problem had increase the sea level due to the rapid melting of
glaciers also become one of the leading factor to the erosion problem along the
coastline. Instead, there are others reason such as natural weathering, reduced sediment
discharge from rivers into coastal areas and human impacts. In order to solve this
problem, the Government had set up the Coastal Engineering Centre in the Department
of Irrigation andDrainage (DID) in 1987 to implement coastal erosion control program
throughout the country. Although the action was taken, there were some deficiencies on
it which is the data gathering of the coastal protection structures which had been
implemented were not provided properly. To improve the systems, the author is taking
initiative to create a database scheme of coastal protection along the Peninsular
Malaysia coastline. The gathering of this database is hoped to develop better
understanding on design criteria about coastal protection scheme along Peninsular
Malaysia coastlines performances and failure mode of structure. In presenting the
database of coastal protection scheme along Peninsular Malaysia's shoreline, software
called GIS (Maplnfo Professional 7.0®} is used. Easy access to acquiring information
from this database would produce a general framework in helping designing the coastal
protection structures andgives benefit to contractors owners anddevelopers in Malaysia
for future development