Appalled by channel work

I just wanted to bring to your attention the mess created by Gosford Council while building their bike track alongside the channel at Woy Woy.

I drive past the channel to Sydney twice a day and have noticed the immediate and dramatic change to that channel ever since council decided to put in that bike track that very, very few people will ever use.

They have filled in about two metres of shoreline removing many mangroves in the process and although I am no tree hugger I am however appalled at the narrowing of this channel.

At low tide, as it was this morning, it looks hardly passable to larger watercraft.

I wonder if, now they have stuffed this up, they are going to have to start dredging what was a perfect piece of waterway, to correct their mistake?

Michelle Ortlipp, Koolewong