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Collapse Issue 430 - 16 Oct 2017Issue 430 - 16 Oct 2017
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Grant to continue waterway cleaning
Committee calls for marketing for the Peninsula
Community plan organisation to incorporate
Beaches given a good rating
Peninsula unrepresented on key council committees
Look at alternatives to rail crossing, says chamber
Shopping centre plans fall foul of amalgamation
Call for MP and council to work on coastal management
Mayor's allowance set at $113,280
Rotary club plans youth charity ball
Landcare volunteers visit Rileys Island
Fairhaven looks for bingo volunteers
Rotary holds graffiti removal day
Libraries close for upgrades
Oyster Festival to include art exhibition
Open day at community garden
Alleged murderer dies in custody
Community day
Uniting Church spring fair
Equality supporters meet at Ettalong
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Law says waterways responsibility is with Minister
We like it the way it is
Getting the word out
Many have moved here to escape congestion
Infrastructure must come before change
Letter is excellent example of good citizenry
Club acknowledges public-spirited residents
Let's plan an educated future
Shopfronts need a blast
Do councillors visit Woy Woy?
'Emergency dredging' is a joke
Full review needed before rezoning
Development priority will not convince new council
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Bowling clubs present cheque to Health District
Free hearing tests offered in Woy Woy
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Jimmy Barnes comes to Umina for second book signing
Artists exhibit at Wagstaffe hall
Crafts centre holds annual art show
Mongolian music at folk club
Retirement village choir to raise funds for album
Lifesaver publishes children's book about beach safety
Scammers target Patonga artist
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Children's author to visit Umina
Pretty Beach wins council environment award
Students visit reptile park
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Volunteers wanted by disabled surfers association
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Champion at body-building nationals
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Umina minor pairs final
Twells takes out singles championship
Woy Woy Rugby Union club presents awards

'Emergency dredging' is a joke

For the Member for Terrigal, Mr Adam Crouch, to come out and say that this useless exercise is emergency dredging is a joke.

You can't have an excavator on a barge moving small amounts of sand, around 100m, and call it a dredging program.

This is what is called an exercise in futility; to move sand around 100m in a high current zone such as this doesn't work as they found out the first time they did it in June.

The people of the Central Coast and Peninsula who use this channel need to have this dangerous situation rectified now, not when another incident happens which may claim a life.

Both the new Central Coast Council and the State Government need to stop the buck passing, fix the problem with a real dredge not this haphazard solution they are attempting again which has cost over $300K so far, this time will be just as unsuccessful as the first attempt.

The people of the Peninsula would like to see some leadership from our new Council especially the elected members from the Gosford West Ward, let's have the problem fixed properly, have a real dredge move the sand from the channel to where it came from, the weather-beaten beach.

All people want is to have the channel fixed, so to the State Government and the Council stop playing the blame game and have this fixed before it is too late.





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