The Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserve Trust has asked Council to prepare an urgent report for the August Council meeting to map out the process for developing a long-term solution to beach erosion at Kingscliff.
The Trust held an Extraordinary Meeting at the Cudgen Headland Surf Club on Thursday afternoon (August 4), following a site inspection of the erosion by Councillors, acting in their role as Trustees.
The Council report will examine the feasibility of a terminal wall to be extended across the potential area under threat and provide information on the costs and benefits of a variety of potential materials, such as sandbags and rocks.
To save costs, the Trust is hoping the materials and structures used in the extensive emergency works may be able to be integrated into any permanent structure.
The Trust endorsed the Coastline Management Plan’s long-term strategy of providing sand nourishment to Kingscliff Beach.
Council will advise the NSW Government of the direction that the Trust and Council is heading, with a view to obtaining State Government assistance to implement a long-term solution to Kingscliff beach erosion.
Council will provide regular updates on the erosion situation at Kingscliff through its website www.tweed.nsw.gov.au.
Last Friday, NSW Minister for the Environment Robyn Parker visited the erosion site at Kingscliff to announce funding of $75,000 to allow Council to move forward with the planning approval to extract sand from the Tweed River for the long-term strategy of sand nourishment.
Tweed mayor, Councillor Kevin Skinner, said Council and the Trust welcomed the funding and would be seeking further assistance from the NSW Government to address the urgent erosion issue.
Meanwhile, the Cudgen Headland Surf life Saving Club has thrown its support behind Council, saying it had approached the erosion issue with “great commitment and great alacrity”.
Club Secretary Mark Buckman said Council had saved the clubhouse.
“We would like to make our position very clear in relation to the damage done by these natural events as we are aware of the seemingly non-stop flow of criticism that has been directed at Tweed Shire Council.
“The annual meeting of the club on Sunday agreed that, if Council had not taken the action it took in May 2010 to provide a piled reveted wall on the seaward side of the clubhouse, we would no longer be in the privileged position of occupying a surf club building,” Mr Buckman said.
“We wish to further endorse the work done by Council since the heavy erosion commenced back in May last year. The southern area of the foreshore have benefitted greatly from the rock wall and sand enhancement.”
