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AUSTRALIA - To reduce the number of trucks, can a pipeline save our beaches?
Australia - NEWS.com.au, By Environment Reporter DANIEL CLARKE - December 6, 2004 - ... a major pipeline system to transport sand from northern metropolitan beaches to the city's southern coast ... The ambitious project is part of the Coastal Protection Branch's plan, which now cart the sand, on coastal roads. ...Some of the southern beaches are losing the equivalent of 7000 truckloads of sand each year through coastal drift .... "if sand carting stopped, southern beaches would disappear within 15 years. But the trucks caused other problems .... on beaches and on residential roads does not make a very happy community," ...
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