Coastal protection works to address serious erosion issues at Clarkes Beach in Byron Bay have been completed as part of a $1.6 million NSW Government investment to improve safety and access for beachgoers and protect important community assets from further erosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
High tides and ocean swells had taken a toll on the beach and surrounding dunes, affecting public access and threatening the Crown land reserve and adjoining Reflections Byron Bay Holiday Park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The NSW Government, through Crown Lands and its Crown Reserves Improvement Fund (CRIF), provided $1.275 million for the protection works, with Reflections Holidays engaging the Soil Conservation Service to deliver the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Work started in early August and continued over five weeks to install about 600 sandbags across a 72-metre section of previously unprotected beach at the front of the holiday park.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The existing sandbag wall installed on the reserve beachfront in 2020 was also repaired as part of the works program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Revegetation works will be carried out in October, with fencing installed to protect regrowth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Crown Lands will allocate a further $395,000 to support further sand nourishment works at Clarkes Beach, which are expected to be completed next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Minister for the North Coast Janelle Saffin said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOur beaches are a treasured part of life on the North Coast, but they face pressure from coastal erosion, severe weather and high tides.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis funding has delivered practical protection for the reserve at popular Clarkes Beach to enhance the visitor experience and help minimise the risk to our valuable community assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cInvestments like this at Clarkes Beach supports both our coastline and the communities that rely on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWhile we can’t control the weather and ocean conditions that affect our beaches, we can take practical action to protect our natural assets, cultural heritage and community infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Coastal protection works to address serious erosion issues at Clarkes Beach in Byron Bay have been completed as part of a $1.6 million NSW Government investment to improve safety and access for beachgoers and protect important community assets from further erosion. High tides and ocean swells had taken a toll on the beach and surrounding … Continue reading “Clarkes Beach protected as erosion works complete”<\/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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770","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=40770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40771,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40770\/revisions\/40771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}