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Millers beach under threat

4/17/2012

 
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Eish, the sand has gone seriously AWOL at Millers lately. Which is a REALLY bad sign as winter hasn't even started yet! Usually the summer onshores build up the sand, and then the winter storms sweep it away. The hiccup is, now we have bogger all sand left for winter to take.

I haven't seen the beach at Millers this rocky, and the dunes this damaged in the 12 years I've lived over the road. There's rocks popping outta the sand I've never laid my eye's on.

The dunes at the back of the beach have taken a pounding too, and are busy getting smaller with each passing winter. They used to extend far deeper onto the beach, whereas now they're getting smaller and are only starting further back towards the grassy area behind Millers. Not a good sign at all - cos once these guys are gone, that's it ...no more dunes. There's no feeder sand to build em back up. 

Yet another beach screwed up by the march of development. We're gonna seriously regret stuffing up the dune system in Summerstrand, cos one day soon we're just going to have big concrete walls all along our beaches.....

Might be an interesting winter.....
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The base of the dunes used to start at least another 2m further forward a few years back
Pieter
4/16/2012 06:55:10 pm

Was there ever sand up there to begin with? from what i've heard, the rocks extended from avos all the way down to Hobie beach. Hobie beach and the sand around millers only formed after the pier was built.

Millerslocal
4/16/2012 09:28:32 pm

@Pieter - nup, there were sandy beaches running the whole stretch from Cape Recife right down to Kings back in the day - check out the aerial shots in my article here. http://www.millerslocal.co.za/getting-our-beaches-back.html
You'll see the dune belt came right onto the beach in this area.

Bobby
4/16/2012 09:20:05 pm

Why are the beaches at Millers and Pipe full of concrete, bricks and general building rubble? Did they just bulldoze the old summies hotel onto the beach? Can someone please organise a clean up(CYOH/EPSA?)?


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