A £36 million plan has been drawn up to protect Dundee from the River Tay.
A coastal flood study, which will go before Dundee City Council on Monday, has outlined that parts of the coast are at risk of flooding and coastal erosion, with climate change and rising sea levels a concern.
The council has come up with £35.9m proposals to protect the shores over the next 200 years. The Dundee Coastal Study was carried out along 16.5km of city land along the coastal front.
City Development director Mike Galloway said: “The study has identified that there is a risk of coastal flooding within Dundee, including central Dundee, Broughty Ferry, Riverside Drive and Dundee Airport.
“Coastal erosion risk is primarily a problem at the Riverside landfill site, grassy beach and Broughty Ferry beach to varying degrees.”
Ths study considers the impact of flooding on the city over one, 10, 100 and 200 years. All scenarios are considered with and without 50 years of climate change.
The coast has been split into different management sections with plans drawn up to counteract rising tides.
These methods include rock armour around Dundee Airport, raised earth at Riverside Park and a raised flood wall at the Central Waterfront.
Dune management and rock armour would be implemented at Broughty Ferry Beach. The most expensive sections identified are a £13.585m rock armour slope at Dundee Airport West and a raised flood wall at Broughty Ferry costing £6.42m.
Councillors will be asked on Monday to allocate an initial allowance of over £1.2m from the authority’s capital budget to progress initial designs and funding bids.
Funding for the scheme may be available from 2015 in Scottish Government grants.
Mr Galloway said: “A prioritised schedule of works has been developed which will mean that, as funding becomes available, the council will target areas of high risk first, thereby spreading the cost of implementation over a number of years.
“In order to defend the assets within the Central Waterfront Development, it is necessary to make provisions for upgrading the defences along Riverside Drive and City Quay.”
Doug McLaren, of Friends of the Earth, said: “I think it’s worth spending these large amounts of money on protecting essential assets, and maybe money could be saved by letting the non-essential things go.”