artifical reefs
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G'Day Simba,
It's been our aim that, once things are established on the new Swellnet site, we'd host an Artificial Reef forum thread, somewhere those interested in reefs can converse and bounce ideas around. I know that Andrew Pitt and Bob S, both avid reef designers, are keen. Perhaps we'll move things along?
On the Coffs Harbour project: Craig and I were in at Manly Hydraulic Laboratory recently where they had a scale model of the breakwall and were running tests on it. Wasn't any mention of artificial reefs then.
The last I heard of a reef being proposed was at Old Bar. That was to be a Multi Purpose Reef (MPR) to mitigate wave action where they've had coastal erosion and (hopefully) create a surfable wave. Not sure where that project curently stands.
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It was in yesterdays news that they have 4 options for the breakwall at Coff's and option 4 was the artificial (surf?) reef off the breakwall. The issue as always was cost.
Whats the latest on artifical reefs these days ,does anyone have any info?