Update to the Dredging of the Clyde River Bar.

 Here is an urgent Update to the Dredging of the Clyde River Bar.

The Bar Maid has commenced dredging the bar BUT not with the correct length of pipes to deposit the sand spoils in the approved location. They are "side casting" which means dumping it just to the north of the dredging area. This is well outside their REF (Review of Environmental Factors) and well outside the BB Marine Park Authority approved conditions. The Association knows this and many other issues with Sandpiper Dredging's operation but what is the Manager Coastal Infrastructure MIDO Crownland Newcastle doing about it NOTHING. What is the local boating safety officer doing about it ...... all he can but he has been told to pull his head in and look the other way. The required pipes are still on the truck waiting to be connected.

The question to be asked:

• What will happen to the sand spoils just being dumped randomly in the Bay?
• What damage will it do the underwater environment?
• Where will the sand eventually end up?
• Will the sand join the Cullendulla Creek sand bank and close the creek?
• How will the taxpayers know that the approved and paid for contract has been completed and the required sand dredged?
• How can this company destroy the piles on the T-wharf and have its barge float under the bridge to tangle with mooring lines with no consequence?
• Who authorised the Bar Maid to be attached to an inappropriate commercial mooring and break loose to damage two moored vessels and still operate in the Bay?
• Did they complete the AMSA Incident Report when these two events happened?

These are not allegations these are facts and the Association has corroboration from a number of sources all of whom are concerned that rules and regulation dont apply to RMS, John Holland and Crownland.