Offshore Reefs Project To Protect Old Bar’s Rapidly Eroding Coast
Posted In Erosion, News
Sep
10
Old Bar is a coastal town in New South Wales, Australia in the City of Greater Taree. It lies around 16 kilometres (10 mi) east of Taree on the Mid North Coast, and around 315 kilometres (196 mi) north of Sydney. Old Bar is at the mouth of the Manning River, one of two “delta” rivers in the southern hemisphere, having more than one outlet to the ocean. Wikipedia
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In the past 18 months a total of 81 metres of foredune between the ocean and the 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 a blueprint to stem erosion along the NSW coast.
The Sand Replenishment Group, in charge of the study and project, has been working to have an artificial reef built offshore, but the problem is worsening each day. The extent of the erosion (now 1.4 kms of beach), there is a need for two reefs…
Drafting of the plan has been continuing for almost three-and-a-half years, from April 2008. The feasibility study into offshore reefs to protect Old Bar’s eroding coast should be finished within a couple of weeks…
Across New South Wales, beaches in 11 council areas, from Byron Shire Council to Eurobodalla Shire Council, have been identified as regions where five or more houses or roads are at risk of coastal erosion, according to the NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water.( Sydney Morning Herald