{"id":3151,"date":"2019-06-27T09:12:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=3151"},"modified":"2019-06-27T09:12:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T09:12:50","slug":"city-to-seek-clarification-about-offshore-sand-extraction-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2019\/06\/27\/city-to-seek-clarification-about-offshore-sand-extraction-2\/","title":{"rendered":"City to seek clarification about offshore sand extraction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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City of Newcastle will seek clarification on the NSW Government\u2019s position on offshore sand extraction for nourishment and replenishment of Stockton Beach, following a successful Lord Mayoral Minute at last night\u2019s\u00a0Council meeting.
\nThe minute cited\u00a0advice from the UNSW\u2019s Water Research Laboratory (WRL), commissioned by the NSW Government\u2019s Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), identifying offshore sand extraction as one of the only viable methods for large-scale beach nourishment along the open coast.
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\nCity of Newcastle Lord Mayor Nuatali Nelmes said that despite the expert advice, the NSW Government\u2019s position remained unclear.
\n\u201cA recent NSW Government-sponsored report identifies offshore sand extraction as possibly the only method to renourish Stockton Beach, however it remains unclear whether the NSW Government will support the use of this mechanism as a part of City of Newcastle\u2019s Coastal Management Program,\u201d Councillor Nelmes said.
\n\u201cI want to thank the Stockton Community Liaison Group and the Newcastle Coastal Planning Working Group for the work they have done to date to address coastal erosion at Stockton.
\n\u201cThis minute, supported by the City of Newcastle, and the groups currently assisting to develop our coastal management programs, simply seeks clarification about the use of offshore sand extraction for the replenishment of sand at Stockton Beach.
\n\u201cIt is clear from my discussions with both groups that clarity from the NSW Government is urgently needed to move forward with our vital coastal planning and management.\u201d
\nRon Boyd, a Stockton-based expert on coastal erosion, and member of the liaison group and the Newcastle Coastal Planning Working Group, said clarification of the supply of marine sand for beach replenishment was a critical component of NSW coastal councils\u2019 response to the Coastal Management Act of 2016.
\n\u201cThe severe sand erosion problem at Stockton can only be remediated by sand replenishment,\u201d Associate Professor Boyd said. There are limited options for sourcing this sand and the marine option may prove to be the most suitable and cost effective.
\n\u201cI\u2019m aware that there\u2019s an abundance of sand available on the inner shelf off Newcastle for this purpose, as well as a large sand deposit accumulating seaward of Nobbys Beach.
\n\u201cMany coastal councils would also be considering this option, and in the short window available to draft Coastal Management Programs, it\u2019s critical to identify if this option is available and how to proceed to include it.\u201d
\nFor more information about City of Newcastle\u2019s coastal planning processes, visit our website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.newcastle.nsw.gov.au\/Living\/Environment\/Coast\/Coastal-Planning<\/u><\/a>
\nA copy of UNSW\u2019s Water Research Laboratory\u2019s \u2018Guidelines for Sand Nourishment: Science and Synthesis for NSW can be accessed here:\u00a0https:\/\/www.environment.nsw.gov.au\/-\/media\/OEH\/Corporate-Site\/Documents\/Water\/Coasts\/sand-nourishment-guidelines-science-synthesis-nsw.pdf<\/u><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

City of Newcastle will seek clarification on the NSW Government\u2019s position on offshore sand extraction for nourishment and replenishment of Stockton Beach, following a successful Lord Mayoral Minute at last night\u2019s\u00a0Council meeting. The minute cited\u00a0advice from the UNSW\u2019s Water Research Laboratory (WRL), commissioned by the NSW Government\u2019s Office of Environment and Heritage (OEH), identifying offshore … Continue reading “City to seek clarification about offshore sand extraction”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newcastle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}