Peninsula News - 27 Jul 2009

I have lived here on the waterfront at Booker Bay for 41 years and have taken a keen interest in tides and their various heights, especially the king tides mid-year and at Christmas.

There isn't any rise in levels taking place here.

A check with Fort Denison Tidal Facility will show any person interested in the facts that over the last 100 years the average rise is only a miniscule amount of 0.89mm with no sign of any acceleration.

Yes, there is a gradual erosion taking place along foreshores and has been going on for yonks.

This is a natural process and is due to high tides with prevailing strong winds.

Naturally, where council and residents' interests are threatened various preventive measures must take place.

Speak to our local real estate agents, as I have, and they will tell you waterfront properties such as The Esplanade are still appreciating in value - any fall would be due to the current economic crisis.

The subject of "rising sea levels" is never mentioned by any prospective purchasers.

Tony McPhee, Booker Bay

Comments

Stephen Solomons
Budgewoi
10 Nov 2009 12:39

Tony McPhee raises a number of interesting points. I am glad that the seas are not rising at Booker Bay. Residents of the various islands currently disappearing under the Pacific will be relieved to hear it is not affecting everyone. Many of the people living along the foreshore in places like Booker Bay and across the coast built their homes despite passionate opposition by people who saw quite clearly that foreshore is unstable and should not be built on. The preventative measures Tony McPhee thinks must take place will affect other people and cycles around the waterfront. We are all going to pay with either further beach degradation or our rates so a few very willful people can continue to maintain their prestige

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