The community will be able to share their ideas on the St Clair sea wall with Dunedin City Council consultants in the next $130,000 stage of the project, infrastructure and networks general manager Tony Avery says.
Mr Avery said a meeting, to be held on August 28 at 6.30pm at Forbury Park Raceway Hall, would involve the public, councillors and council engineers and consultants.
Opus International Consultants Ltd, supported by DHI New Zealand, would assist the council with the next stages of the St Clair sea wall project.
The consultants' brief was to assess the present situation and provide recommendations for a process to protect the sea wall, and the beach amenity in the area, in the long term, Mr Avery said.
The consultants would review the reports on the St Clair environment and hold a workshop with previous consultants to gather all information about the environment.
Consultants would also structurally evaluate the sea wall, the promenade and the St Clair Surf Life Saving Club ramp, provide a report on how issues had evolved and highlight any gaps in the council's understanding of the tidal processes.
The report would also identify what information still needed to be collected and provide alternatives to address the stability of the sea wall in the longer term, while protecting the beach amenity.
The consultants were expected to report to the council in October, Mr Avery said.
The cost for the consultation ''scoping stage'' was estimated at $130,000, with further stages to be defined once the scoping was complete, he said.
Sinkholes appeared in the Esplanade paving in May, stabilisation of the sea wall was completed in July and access from the Esplanade to the beach was restored last month, he said. The remedial repairs had cost the council about $500,000, he said.
''This reflects the significant amount of work carried out by contractors at the site, often late at night, and the use of specialist machinery and advice,'' Mr Avery said.
