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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Jamieson Murphy

Funding to stop Merewether and Bar Beach becoming the next Stockton

Bar Beach after it was stripped of sand by an east coast low in April 2022. Picture: Simone De Peak

Newcastle's Merewether and Bar Beach coastline will need "significant intervention and investment" as the cost of managing the effects of climate change becomes a reality, the city's lord mayor says.

The NSW government has provided Newcastle City Council with $116,000 to plan how it can best protect the Bar Beach strip.

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