Some is also used to top up inner city beaches like Kohimarama and Mission Bay, and some is used in the creation of horse racing tracks, golf courses, and sports turfs.Īuckland Council commissioners said McCallum failed to supply evidence that continued sand mining at the far depth would not harm the seabed, beach, or marine and bird life.
The sand is largely used to create concrete - powering Auckland projects including the Sky Tower, Waterview Tunnel, Harbour Bridge and the under-construction City Rail Link. Every year they land on the flat and the king tide sweeps away the babies, so has made a big difference." They're actually programmed to land there and nest there, but now it's gone. on the shore that the tara iti, or the fairy tern, used to nest on. Over the course of many "almost daily" walks on the beach, she said she had observed a gradual collapsing of the sand dunes as sand was taken from under the water, along with a decline in shellfish and crayfish stocks. Sharley Haddon, who has lived at the beach for more than 50 years, said she heard the thudding of the sand mining barge at night. It comes after more than 80 years of sand mining at Pakiri Beach, and what some local campaigners see as evidence of environmental harm to the shore and seabed. McCallum Bros has been sucking up sand from three different depths off the beach north of Auckland and wants authorities to rethink its declined 'far shore' application - warning of dire consequences for the construction industry.
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