Dubai, Oct 16th, 2007 (WAM): Dubai Municipality has completed all marine works of phase one of the Jumeirah Open Beach development project that seeks to provide the open beach with high-standard public amenities, said Essa Al Maidour, Assistant Director General of the Municipality for General Projects Affairs.

He noted that the project, costing Dhs 60 million, forms part of the municipality's efforts to maintain Dubai's reputation as a premier beach holiday destination among international tourists.

The Phase One works involved extension of the existing rock structures and sand replenishment in order to provide a wider and more stable beach offering safer and enhanced beach facilities. The reconstruction work had followed a data collection campaign throughout the Jumeirah coastal frontage and an extensive consideration of options supported by numerical and physical modelling.

Eng. Alya AbdulRahim, Head of Coastal Management Section at Dubai Municipality, said as part of the first phase of the open beach development project, the rubble-mounted break-waters in the beach area were reconstructed and the beach was nourished with more than 600,000 cubic metres of beach sand thereby ensuring a stable coastline and a wide and safe beach for the visitors and the area's residents.

She said the first ever coastline development project was undertaken by the section in 1988 with the objective of stabilising the coastline against continues erosion and the first beach protection project was undertaken during the period from 1992 until 1994.