The first East Coast Low has all but wiped out so-called protective sand dunes at the back of beachfront houses in a Batemans Bay suburb.
Myamba Parade residents report to us three metre high waves on Friday crashed into the temporary structures created by sand scraping the beach late last year.
One of them, Craig Lyttle said they experienced three-metre plus high waves on Friday.
“What it has done is it has eroded at least two thirds of the dune that was pushed up by the bulldozers when they did the beach scraping so all of that work is basically gone,” Mr Lyttle said.
Mr Lyttle is calling on the State Government and the council to get the bulldozer out again.
“All of that work has basically gone and needs to be done again,” Mr Lyttle said.
“If we get another event in the near future, it will just take the rest of it and we’ll get inudated again,” He said.
“They need to do the beach scraping again to rebuild the dune.
“There were also hundreds and hundreds of bushes that we all planted but they’re all gone. The ocean got them and the signs they out up to say not to play on the dune or walk on the dune. All those signs are in the ocean.”
