Investigation of zonguldak coasts for coastal management

7th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, MEDCOAST 2005 -- 25 October 2005 through 29 October 2005 -- Kusadasi -- 105144Zonguldak is located on the Northwest coast of Turkey on the Black Sea. The population of the city is 106 000 and it is a coastal city which has got natural beauty and econemically influenced coal and steal. Zonguldak region is confronted with problems of the coastal engineering and management from Eregli to Filyos province. Main problems are shipyards and filling area, uncontrolled solid waste area on the sea side, damages result from sea storm, and getting shallow and polluted basin and increasing of ship traffic at Zonguldak Harbor. At the Zonguldak coasts, pollution comes from domestic wastes and Çatalagzi Thermal Power Plant. In this study, these problems have been investigated from point of coastal management and suitable solutions are presented