A Meet the Candidates evening, to be held at the Ocean Shores Country Club on March 13 from 6pm, will be a chance for residents to hear about how Byron Shire’s north can better prepare for future flooding. All are welcome.
A spokesperson for the Ocean Shores Community Association (OSCA), told The Echo, ‘The Brunswick River, with its north and south arms, Marshalls Creek and Simpsons Creek, has been blocked by heavy siltation over the past 60 years’.
‘The natural clean out of the Brunswick River, especially from the north arm (Marshalls Creek) is impeded.
‘Floodwaters from the north encounter the massive earth wall built by the Department of Public Works at the entrance of Marshalls Creek, and cannot naturally flow out to the ocean.
‘The floodwaters flow back to the north, causing a chain reaction of flooding and mayhem.
‘This affects Mullumbimby, Ocean Shores and, for the first time, Brunswick Heads.
‘Tributaries from Marshalls Creek cannot escape to the ocean because of a road built along the dunes’.
