Post by Brent George on Dec 6, 2021 1:14:26 GMT
The unintended consequence of "beach sanding"
Stuff - Auckland: 6-Dec-2021
In 2004, Auckland Council came up with a plan: bring in a load of sand, spread it on a few of the wetter or more eroded beaches, and give the public a better experience.
St Heliers got most of the sand: 39,000 cubic metres, at a cost of $4.3 million. Pt Chev and Pt England got quite a bit, Blockhouse Bay and Taylors Reserve got some, and three small Herne Bay beaches got between 800 and 1500 cubic metres of sand each, at an estimated total cost to ratepayers of $440,000.
But what no one thought about was a different and unintended consequence: that all that extra sand on the beach potentially gives the homeowners with beachfront properties a windfall addition to their land.
It’s all about the boundary, ands coastal homeowners being allowed to claim all the land down to the ‘Mean High Water Springs’ or MHWS......
Stuff - Auckland: 6-Dec-2021
In 2004, Auckland Council came up with a plan: bring in a load of sand, spread it on a few of the wetter or more eroded beaches, and give the public a better experience.
St Heliers got most of the sand: 39,000 cubic metres, at a cost of $4.3 million. Pt Chev and Pt England got quite a bit, Blockhouse Bay and Taylors Reserve got some, and three small Herne Bay beaches got between 800 and 1500 cubic metres of sand each, at an estimated total cost to ratepayers of $440,000.
But what no one thought about was a different and unintended consequence: that all that extra sand on the beach potentially gives the homeowners with beachfront properties a windfall addition to their land.
It’s all about the boundary, ands coastal homeowners being allowed to claim all the land down to the ‘Mean High Water Springs’ or MHWS......