TALK to any long-time local at Quinns and they will tell you that you don’t need to spend money on a “beach survey” to know that the erosion of Quinns Beach has been causing problems for a long while.
This week’s removal of the playground by the City of Wanneroo, before it toppled into the ocean, was a wake-up call to the broader community of what the locals have been sadly watching for a long time now.
Scientists, bureaucrats and consultants will now no doubt expend a lot of additional ratepayer dollars to try and explain and fix this disastrous erosion.
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READ NOWPerhaps we should listen to some free advice from one of the old locals: ‘If we keep messing with mother nature and build marinas, she will bite us in the bum.’
I don’t know what’s to blame for the problems on Quinns Beach.
But where are those scientists that say building marinas don’t have an environmental impact?
Sabine Winton,
Nowergup