OPINION: Coffs Harbour Boat Ramp and Jetty Redevelopment Master Plan Opinion by News Of The Area - Modern Media - February 25, 2022 DEAR News Of The Area, THE sea wall supposedly designed to improve and make our harbour boat ramp better and safer has created a real problem with sand build up already making boat access impossible at low tide. The wall design and the modelling undertaken by the Manly Hydraulics Laboratory seems to have fallen well short of what was needed for this part of the $14m upgrade being overseen by Transport NSW Maritime. Add to this there is the alarming disregard of the Coffs community’s views in the Jetty Area Foreshores Master Plan as noted in Bruce Weir’s letter (‘Abject Betrayal of the Coffs Harbour Community, p24, Coffs Coast News of The Area, 18 February 2022). Both issues call for immediate remedial action led by our local member Gurmesh Singh. His assurances that the community’s views would be first and foremost in the Jetty Foreshores redevelopment currently appear to be completely forgotten for the benefit of developers. Regards, Lionel GOODACRE, Coffs Harbour.
if we use the whole east coast of Australia as an example history and without getting to technical the closer you come to shore the more sandy and shallow it becomes .with this in mind the boat ramp should be located out in the corner of the southwall and quarry.A wall say 50 mtrs nth of where the south corner is at the quarry run in a nthwest direction towards the jetty say 30 mtrs long . nothing flash just a wall and then monitor what happens as per sand build up prior to undertaking any further design ,if it works go ahead , there is a saying about doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different outcome engineers would,nt get it wrong,,,,,,,,So who is putting their hand up and saying we got WRONG,,,another saying the proof is in the pudding Reply
