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Newcastle Herald
Newcastle Herald
National
Matthew Kelly

'Ridiculous': Valuable sand dumped at sea as Stockton erodes

Port of Newcastle dredger David Allan dumping sand off the coast of Stockton in May 2020.

Valuable sand that could be used to replenish Stockton beach continues to be dumped at sea because of a bureaucratic impasse that remains unresolved a year after it was identified.

The Port of Newcastle's dredge, the David Allan, had been depositing about 30,000 cubic metres of sand annually from harbour maintenance just off Stockton.

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