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5973 6424 or email: team@mpnews.com.au www.mpnews.com.au Prized produce: Robyn Schuurman, Robyn Fox and Brayden Logan – Gusti with a basketful of some of Heronswood’s current crop. Picture: Yanni
Harvest festival returns to Heronswood TWO years since a fire reduced its cafe to rubble, Heronswood wants the gardening world to know it’s business as usual. Of course that’s the way it has been since the fire, but it seems many people thought the celebrated gardens and historic building had been put out of action. That was never the case and owners Clive and Penny Blazey are hoping this weekend’s Heronswood Harvest Festival will clear the air once and for all. “Blaze no barrier to celebrations� Page 11
Moves to bring sand to Portsea Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au CONTRACTORS are about to be appointed to investigate restoring Portsea’s famed front beach to its former, sand-filled glory. Following years of arguing over the causes of the sand loss, the Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning in February called for quotes
on the methods and cost of replacing sand and preventing its future erosion. Background notes provided by the department acknowledge swell waves from Bass Strait as causing Portsea’s sand loss, but does not mention channel deepening in 2008-09, the biggest and most recent change to the Port Phillip seabed. The Port of Melbourne Corporation denied its two-year $720 million
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dredging project caused the erosion but two state government-commissioned reports – by Water Technologies and the CSIRO – revealed the removal of sand further out in the bay had changed the shape and power of waves hitting the beach. Reports of abnormally large waves hitting the front beach were first made in late 2008. The department has narrowed the
remedies for the beach down to six and expects the successful contractor to assess their effectiveness “over a 50 year planning horizon, having a design life of not less than 20 years and not greater than 50 years�. The six coastal and maritime options to be assessed are: 1. Shaping the seabed with dredging. 2. Building a breakwater seaward of Portsea pier.
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3. Installing groynes or artificial headland on the beach east of the pier. 4. Replacing the existing sandbag seawall with a rock seawall. 5. Restoring or renourishing alone or in combination with 1, 2, 3 and 4 above, for example, beach renourishment and a seawall 6. Removing the sandbag seawall to examine beach dynamics, recovery and/or erosion. Continued Page 5
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