The following findings and recommendations form the conclusions of the paper which has presented some key issues related to the management of the Toe of coastal structures:1. For risk-based asset management of coastal defences and Toe structures we need to combine condition grade assessments with monitoring and predictive approaches for beach levels and toe scour;2. The monitoring and analysis of beach levels and assessment of structure condition provide essential information for predictive performance analysis.3. A range of tools and methods are available to demonstrate applicability of the approach;4. Some simple steps could help significantly with visual assessment (e.g. beach level height gage or 'Plimsoll' line placed on a seawall) facilitating early warning of beach levels;5. Methods are available to assess beach lowering and predict scour hole depth. An approach for combining these two estimates of future bed level has been proposed which allows the evaluation of future levels against pre-determined critical beach levels; and,6. Monitoring of short time scale (within tide) variability of scour holes or beach levels at the Toe is possible to check the predictions at a particular site.
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