Otaga Daily Times: Coastal erosion could undermine flood banks and roads in the lower Clutha within three decades, an Otago Regional Council report warns.
A study of the coast from Nugget Point to Chrystalls Beach (near Toko Mouth), in South Otago, showed at the historical and present rate of erosion the Lower Clutha Flood Protection and Drainage Scheme flood banks could be affected by erosion in less than 30 years.
Council chairman Stephen Woodhead said with such significant erosion it would only take a high...