CLARENCE City Council is continuing its work to protect the Lauderdale Coastal Reserve by constructing additional dune crossings onto Lauderdale Beach.
The crossings will resemble the fenced tracks and steps constructed at Bellerive Beach, and will each have a marker on the shore side, to help in making beach access simpler and safer. The crossings will also protect the dunes from trampling. Mayor of Clarence Doug Chipman said dune care was integral to limiting the impacts of sea level rise.
“Crossing the dunes behind Lauderdale Beach is now a high stake activity for the Lauderdale community,” Ald Chipman said.
“Everyone has an interest in protecting this crucial buffer between the sea and properties,” he said.
Ald Chipman said residents should also remove all private property, such as boats and structures, from the back of the dune system to reduce erosion and encourage the growth of local coastal vegetation.
The crossing project is a continuation of an ongoing series of remedial and preventative works taking place at Lauderdale beach.
Recent works to the beach have included the nourishment of the dune system with sand, planting of local coastal vegetation to bind the dunes and retain new sand, and the construction of new wooden step formal crossing points.
Lauderdale residents can visit http://www.ccc.tas.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=1596
Great ! Council is spending taxpayers money to protect the dunes but people are still allowed to build on them (clifton beach) , where is the logic?