Like a child building sand castles at the water's edge

To claim a barge with two excavators on it is a dredge is absurd.

This pontoon will clear the channel like a child trying to build sand castles at the water's edge.

Water movements will just redeposit the sand back into the channel.

The sand that is being removed from the channel by this ad-hock method should be deposited back into Ocean Beach, where it came from.

This will replenish the sand lost by past storms.

For the NSW Government to claim the channel is the responsibility of the Central Coast Council is just buck passing as the channel comes under the State Government's Dredging Strategy and is classified as Crown Land.

The suggestion that the people of the Central Coast should be slugged with yet another levy is unfair and unpalatable.

The NSW Government has announced a $4.5 billion surplus in its latest budget, compare this to the financial disaster left us by the last Gosford Council, our community has paid enough.

With this massive surplus, the NSW Government can and should pay the cost of a dredge to keep this vital channel open and safe for residents.

Save Tuggerah Lakes candidates, if elected to the new Central Coast Council in September, will oppose any proposed extra levy on our ratepayers. Save Tuggerah Lakes will stand up for the people of the Coast.

Email, 23 Jun 2017

Carl Veugen, Save Tuggerah Lakes