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Ōwhiro Bay resident Ewan Pohe is frustrated that the council have not acted on residents concerns about regular flooding issues. Ewan Pohe was busy pumping water out of his downstairs flat entanceway, situated accross the road opposite the ramp. He said the ramping on the beach had exacerbated problems on his stretch of road. “The thing I’m interested in is why they haven’t put in a [seabreak] wall,” Pohe said. The plywood barricade he installed was the only thing that limited damage to a broken ranch slider, window and some minor water inside. “If I didn’t do that, it would have been much worse,” he said.
Society argues Kaipara Harbour should supply sand needs
MHRS legal representative James Carnie and Richard Bull.
A map showing Kaipara’s proposed consent area in hatched red.
The Mangawhai Harbour Restoration Society (MHRS) argued that controversial sand mining near Pakiri should be shifted to the Kaipara Harbour or substituted for other sources at a hearing in the Warkworth Town Hall last week.
The hearing comes in the wake of Kaipara Ltd’s application to renew its consent to extract two million cubic metres of sand offshore from Pakiri and Mangawhai over 20 years.
It contends that Pakiri’s sand is required to prevent a shortage of supply for the production of concrete in the Auckland market.
White gold dug up for Auckland: The long, gritty battle over Pakiri s sand
4 May, 2021 10:20 PM
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Protesters form SOS (for Save our Sand ) on a Mangawhai beach. Photo / Supplied
RNZ
By Farah Hancock of RNZ
Sharley Haddon s description of Pakiri Beach s predicament is simple: If you dig a hole in a bowl of sugar, what happens to the sugar around the edge?
She thinks almost 100 years of sand mining off Pakiri Beach, north of Auckland, has caused the shore s sand and the dunes to slump into the holes and trenches left by dredging.
To visitors, Pakiri Beach still looks like a slice of paradise; a long, empty arc of white sand extending from the Pakiri to Mangawhai. For locals like Haddon, there s worry. The beach has changed and not for the better.
Protesters form SOS for Save our Sand on a Mangawhai beach.
Photo: Supplied / Elevated Media
Sharley Haddon s description of Pakiri beach s predicament is simple: If you dig a hole in a bowl of sugar, what happens to the sugar around the edge?
She thinks almost 100 years of sand mining in the waters off Pakiri beach, north of Auckland, has caused the shore s sand and the dunes to slump into the holes and trenches left by dredging.
To visitors, Pakiri beach still looks like a slice of paradise; a long, empty arc of white sand extending from the Pakiri to Mangawhai. For locals like Haddon, there s worry. The beach has changed and not for the better.
Pakiri sand mining gouging trenches in sea floor, locals and iwi opposing consent renewal
30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
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A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores
A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores Locals, iwi and elected officials are furious that a company heading a sand mining operation off the Pakiri coastline, which gouged almost 3-metre deep trenches in the sea floor and allegedly committed multiple resource consent