Authorities should have come clean earlier on end to Stockton sand placement by David Allan dredge

The David Allan dredging in the port.

IN yet another frustration when it comes to the restoration of Stockton beach, it is the Newcastle Herald's sorrowful duty to report that thanks an otherwise little-noticed change in the law, the harbour dredge David Allan stopped Stockton's only real sand supplement midway through last year, apparently with no public notification.

As Donna Page writes today, the David Allan stopped its sporadic Stockton dump runs before June 30 last year, when legislation known as the Coastal Management Act was repealed.