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Beach to be monitored

 

Annual environmental assessments of the beach at Pearl Beach are planned to monitor the need for "beach scraping", Gosford Council has been told.

The assessments "could possibly include collection and interpretation of photogrammetric data to promote better understanding of the modal cycles of beach accretion and erosion".

This followed a request from Pearl Beach residents that "beach scraping procedures be activated".

Gosford Council's Coastline Management, Lagoon Management and Coastal Planning Committee (CLP Committee) advised that three "triggers" detailed in Broken Bay Beaches Coastal Management Plan must be met before the work could proceed.

They were:

An escarpment of more than one metre is formed in the back beach area by storm erosion.

The beach berm has recovered sufficiently to provide sand to fill the back beach area.

Back beach area has not recovered two months after a storm.

Discussion took place on the possible need for an environmental impact study.

The council's environmental engineer will ask Planning NSW whether such a study is required and then finalise the draft Pearl Beach - Scraping Guidelines.

Council agenda CL.011, January 22