The massive erosion problems at Kingscliff which have left visitors to the local caravan park living on the edge are continuing.
While recent wild weather and destructive seas have thankfully not made things dramatically worse, the local authority is cranking up its sandbag strategy.
Since the beach at the popular grey nomad destination started disappearing in huge chunks, councillors at the New South Wales town at the very southern end of the Gold Coast have been left searching for answers.
Now it seems as far as sandbags are concerned the Tweed Council thinks bigger is better.
Tweed Coast Holiday Parks Reserve Trust executive manager Richard Adams, who manages council’s tourist parks, said the decision to use bigger 2.5 cubic metre sandbags for Stage 2 of the construction of a four-metre high protective wall was a good one. The wall will run for 70 metres along the front of the tourist park to join up with an existing wall at the Kingscliff Bowls Club.
The bags, which weigh 4.5 tonnes each when filled, are 3.5 times bigger than the 0.75 cubic metre bags used in the first 130 metres of the wall, and are expected to better withstand the force of the ocean.
“They are serious bags and are probably much better suited for this particular event because of their size, weight and mass,” Mr Adams told the ABC. “They are more impervious to wave action and waves smashing on them and are less likely to slump and deform.”
Time will tell if they will be enough to hold back the furious force of Mother Nature.
