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2002 (c) Peninsula Community Access Newspaper Inc

 

Prepare for Woy Woy Under Sea

 

No doubt the Chamber of Commerce and developers are overjoyed that Mr Refshauge should insist that development of the Peninsula should proceed, as well as that of Gosford.

Perhaps, the future residents will not be so happy when they find their new houses and/or apartments standing in water.

This is inevitable when the only remaining dune along the coast at Ettalong-Umina is so neglected and misused.

Dunes depend on sand and yet the council insists on removing much of the sand by the use of heavy "cleaning machines", the channel is to be dredged for the ferry and the residents cut down the vegetation or dump their rubbish on it.

This dune is the only barrier between the ocean and the flat sand plain of the Peninsula.

All climatologists agree that global warming is a fact, although they do not agree as to its cause.

Seas are rising.

It is not just little islands in the Pacific which are under threat.

Even some of the dykes in the Netherlands have been breached.

Perhaps developers should be designing house boats or apartments on piers for the new Woy Woy Under Sea.

Margaret Lund, Woy Woy