Flooding and Safety Issues – Ocean Shores, New Brighton, South Golden Beach, North Ocean Shores, Billinudgel

by | Mar 10, 2014 | Byron Shire Council, flooding drains |

Flooding and Safety Issues – Ocean Shores, New Brighton, South Golden Beach, North Ocean Shores, Billinudgel

FLOODING and SAFETY ISSUES
Ocean Shores, New Brighton, South Golden Beach, North Ocean Shores, Billinudgel

As these are all linked re flooding because of the blocked creeks, drains, blocked ocean outlets that then cause these areas to be one massive dam.

  • massive flooding – safety, damage, stress, loss
  • increased home insurance

Insurance issue revealed by The Daily News and a Tweed Shire Councillor in 2013.
This insurance is based on the Tweed/Byron Creek Flood Studies
Byron Shire Council Study; actually for 2050-2100 (Research JS)

What of the present?

Orana Road: Photos showing the council drain with overgrown plants/trees/shrubs on the south side of Orana Road; flows under the road to the clean golf course drain/waterway/lake system.

Waterlilly Park: Photos showing the weed covering the lake still. Council did remove some weed. Weeds from the lake enter the Ocean Shores Golf Course system of lakes via the drain under Orana Road.

Photos taken 17th February 2014, 5.15pm.

Regards, Jillian Spring,
Billinudgel.

Click photos to enlarge.