Published date: 12-May-2022
In a sometimes strongly worded 124-page decision, a panel of four council commissioners told dredging company McCallum Bros it had failed to supply evidence that sand mining, which has been going on for decades along that stretch of coast, didn’t harm the seabed, the beach, and marine and bird life.
McCallum had applied to suck up and carry away up to 2 million cubic metres of sand over the next 35 years on what’s called the ‘far shore’ section of the coast - from 25 metres to 40 metres from the beach.