Sandy West Shore
Napier CC has announced it will spend some $3m on an extension to the wall at the southern end of Westshore Beach.
This is a more promising approach than the artificial creation of a reef off westshore.
Recently it was reported a reef built of tyres off the coast in the USA had started to break up.The sea and its power had destroyed the lashing and tyres were washing ashore creating an environmental nightmare.
They are now removing the tyres from the reef to who knows where and it must be costing a fortune.
Sometimes we can learn from history.
This is a more promising approach than the artificial creation of a reef off westshore.
Recently it was reported a reef built of tyres off the coast in the USA had started to break up.The sea and its power had destroyed the lashing and tyres were washing ashore creating an environmental nightmare.
They are now removing the tyres from the reef to who knows where and it must be costing a fortune.
Sometimes we can learn from history.
Posted by in 11:16:10
this sort of ignorant attitude really makes me frustraited. if you and the general public actually knew anything about
artifical reefs, you would realise that they are actually designed to withstand the conditions you describe above.
they are made up of very large bags filled with sand (not old tyres dumped at sea) as you would have people to believe.
when designed properly they break the waves energy up reducing or reversing the erosion at the beach.
they also trap natural sand and promote/enhance sealife in the area, whilst creating a safer beach with the
added bonus of creating somewhere descent for people to surf.
i feel the council has spent too much money looking at “alternatives” to the artifical reef solution,
when the answer has been infront of them the whole time.
for the price they want to spend on the latest hair brained scheme,
they could possibly get two very large artifical reefs at westshore (which would give all the benifits described above)
without threatening the very popular surfing site of the “town reef” where people also collect shellfish etc.
by doing the latest scheme of extending a breakwater north off whakariri ave, they will only further create problems
by trapping more sand in the inner harbour which inturn will need to be dedged more costing more $ and
will create more problems for water craft users beaching themselves at low tide.
I also think its time that people opened there eyes to the fact that the port plays a very large part in the
problem of westshore erosion.
the fact that the HBRC is the major shareholder of the port of napier is very concerning to me from the viewpoint
of coastal erosion and political games. I think its time the port/HBRC stopped playing the political game with “itself”
ie “its the ports fault…no its HBRC responsibility”
when in fact they are one in the same, just stalling for time and money.
bite the bullet and coff up the $ for returning westshore to the safe sandy local attraction if used to be.