Local and Professional surfers are fearing the worst for their favourite beach breaks as they watch them slowly diminish from increased sand build up.

The surfers say the beach breaks are being wiped out by an extended pair of rock walls or groynes off the Tweed River Heads and the pumping of tens of thousands of cubic metres of sand from the Tweed River Sand Bypass which started last year.

But surf isn’t the major problem that has occurred since the completion of the Tweed River Bypass.

Before the bypass the locals were complaining about the beaches washing away because of the extended groynes at he Tweed mouth. So the sand bypass was planned so that the sand build up in and around the Tweed River could be put back out and the on-shore

In the near future sand pumping needs to be controlled and decreased to let the on-shore drift do its job properly and see what effect that has on the immediate beaches and the rest of the gold coast.

As for the long term, not much can be planned because the project is proposed for 25 years and is already in its third year. The locals and fans of the area will need to wait and see what the decreasing of the rate at which the sand is pumped

The reason for this huge increase of sand on the Rainbow Bay beach is because the dredged sand is coming straight around Kirra Point and because the bay is so calm it deposits until it is no longer calm.

Although it might not be the Sahara Desert the locals have started calling it the Rainbow Desert because of the 600m hike just to get to the water’s edge.

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