Date Time $240,000 supports new look for Swansea foreshore Key pieces of rehabilitation work boosted by $240,000 in NSW Government grants have started improving waterways and ecosystems along the Swansea foreshore. Minister for Local Government Shelley Hancock inspected the foreshore and wetland rehabilitation site at Swansea today, after $240,000 was awarded to Lake Macquarie City Council to carry out the work as part of the NSW Government’s Coastal and Estuary Grants Program. “I’m pleased with the works completed so far at Swansea foreshore and to see, first-hand, the 80-metre long protective rock wall, revegetation and saltmarsh rehabilitation,” Mrs Hancock said. “Through the Coastal and Estuary Program, the NSW Government is funding half of this exciting Lake Macquarie City Council project.