'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.

Email, 5 Oct 2017

Carl Veugen, Umina