Old Bar beach erosion, Australia. Photo source: ©© Glenda8
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Residents at Old Bar on the New South Wales mid-north coast have been blocked from building a permanent sea wall to protect their properties from coastal erosion.
“(The NSW Coastal Panel) can’t approve a solution for some houses that will exacerbate the impact on other houses…”
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Offshore Reefs Project To Protect Old Bar’s Rapidly Eroding Coast, ABC NSW (Uploaded on 09-10-2011)
In the past 18 months a total of 81 metres of foredune between the ocean and local Creek has gone completely, leaving a coastal community, in New South Wales Australia, totally vulnerable to the ocean’s erosion. An artificial reef made up of hundreds of sandbags that would raise the ocean floor could become the blueprint to stem erosion along the NSW coast…
Planned Retreat Policy Adopted, Australia, Dredging Today (Uploaded 0n 12-14-2011)
To deal with the increasing occurrence of beach erosion along Australia’s east coast, the city council of Taree, 317 North of Sydney, has adopted a policy of planned retreat for its entire coastline.
