Beaches, river banks and areas impacted by the Tropical Cyclone Alfred and subsequent flooding can leave old objects exposed, such as pipes, cables and wires that had been buried. Other items previously covered by dunes are now exposed.
For example, historically old cars were dumped on beaches to help rebuild dunes.
On a recent walk on Brunswick Heads dog beach, south of the southern Brunswick river break wall, examples of an exposed rusty pipe and cabling or netting was found by Mia Armitage.
‘Both objects pictured are “rooted” into the sand, I could not move either one of them, although admittedly I’m not super strong,’ said Mia.
‘One was a tall rusty-looking metal pipe thing. The other was a bunch of cables swishing around in shallows like seaweed, all in a bunch with same “root” source below sand.
‘One passerby suggested perhaps they were relics, now exposed, from old sandmining days but there were no signs to alert beach users.’
National Parks and Wildlife Services (NPWS) have said that that section of the beach is the responsibility of Byron Shire Council (BSC).
The Echo has alerted the BSC to the fact the objects are there.
As with anything from wire or cables to rusty pipes and other objects that you find that is out of the ordinary and in public places let your local council know so that they can take action to remove anything that can be harmful to humans or animals.
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