Sydney, Australia in the newly formed Northern Beaches Council Area
Following the June 2016 Black NorEaster and/or East Coast Low beach and property suffered significant damage.
Surfrider Foundation Northern Beaches was in the firing line for organising the 2002 Line In The Sand which convinced the then Warringah Council that the community was opposed to the construction of a multimillion dollar seawall over a kilometre long dumping 85,000 tons of rock on the beach at great public expense.
Seawalls profoundly damage beaches and Surfrider remains implacably opposed to hard so-called protective structures on beaches.
See there report to NB Council: makesurf/collaroy_seawall2016.pdf
OR
cloudfront.net/surfrider/pages/../Council_Presentation_Collaroy_Seawall_(1).pdf?1469083587
Northern Beaches surfrider.org.au/nsw
The Northern Beaches Branch was one of Surfrider Australia’s original branches and is still going strong 20 years on!
Major campaigns over its life include the upgrade of Warriewood Sewage Treatment Plant, protesting the proposed seawall for Collaroy/Narrabeen Beach 2002 with the famous “Line In The Sand” and thwarting the proposed overdevelopment of Long Reef SLSC on 2 separate occasions.
The branch has representation on council committees and work closely with environment centres in Manly and Pittwater.
Always looking for another face and bod to lend a hand so if you live anywhere around the Northern Beaches contact them from details on the page:
surfrider.org.au/nsw
makesurf 