Coastal Erosion - Haumoana, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand

Save the Cape Coast

Save the Cape Coast - Support WOW

02.06.11 Groynes feasible for Cape Coast erosion - read articles in Hawkes Bay Today and Dominion Post

The latest WOW Newsletter is out now click on the thumbnail to open a downloadable pdf.

Envision the future now: Give the region an edge
Hard engineering not a hard decision

For further information contact:
Ann Redstone
WOW Chairperson
Phone: 06-8750005
Email: agoodin@slingshot.co.nz

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Latest reports and submissions:

Copy of report read at the WOW AGM - 15 June 2010
Last chance Cape Coast rescue plan. Which part of the Bay are we backing? (click for full version)

Twin submissions were made to both councils:
Hard engineering, not a hard decision (click for full version)
A groyne field to stabilize the coast, including public and private property, and protect the community from ongoing erosion and inundation.
A Cape Coast community vision (click for full version)
Give the community a stronger voice in all plans going forward, starting with the strengthening of the crest, rest areas, park benches and general beautification around the National Cycleway. Adopt the umbrella marketing term Cape Coast as part of a visitor focused promotional exercise.

Hastings District Council. HDC chambers Thursday 3 June 2010 at 10am.
This presentation, based on a year’s work by our coastal engineer and WOW committee members, urges the councillors to come on board with the vision to Save the Cape Coast and to give Haumoana, Te Awanga and Clifton communities a greater say in their own future.
WOW’s proposal for stage one of a hard engineering solution to prevent further erosion by using groynes to build back volume on the beaches, is seeking to enter into a partnership arrangement with the Hastings Council and for them to cover the cost of resource consent.

Partnering for protection (click for full version)
Oral presentation by Keith Newman
Spokesperson for WOW (Walking on Water) Incorporated
To the Hastings District Council, Thursday 3 June 2010

Protection: A matter of discretion (click for full version)
Oral presentation by Keith Newman
Spokesperson for WOW (Walking on Water) Incorporated
To the Hawke’s Bay Regional Council, 1.15pm, Thursday 10 June 2010

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Latest stories in the media:

$40,000 raised for Cape Coast erosion group - HBToday 14.10.10

Urgent need to save homes from sea - Stuff - 07.06.10

Seas do fresh harm to shoreline - HB Today - 31.05.10

Benefactors back Groyne - HB Today - 14.05.10

Huge seas threaten homes - NZ Herald - 09.03.10

Coastal Haumoana Residents can return home - Dominion Post - 08.03.10

WOW urges Government Intervention on Coast - The Scoop - 19.02.10

Unlicensed seawall earns $3000 fine by Marty Sharpe - The Dominion Post - 26.01.10

Coastal dwellers left stranded By MARTY SHARPE - The Dominion Post - 25.07.09

Family home threatened if forced to remove sea wall - Campbell live - 24.07.09