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'White gold' dug up for Auckland: The long, gritty battle over Pakiri's sand


White gold dug up for Auckland: The long, gritty battle over Pakiri s sand
4 May, 2021 10:20 PM
15 minutes to read
Protesters form SOS (for Save our Sand ) on a Mangawhai beach. Photo / Supplied
RNZ
By Farah Hancock of RNZ
Sharley Haddon s description of Pakiri Beach s predicament is simple: If you dig a hole in a bowl of sugar, what happens to the sugar around the edge?
She thinks almost 100 years of sand mining off Pakiri Beach, north of Auckland, has caused the shore s sand and the dunes to slump into the holes and trenches left by dredging.
To visitors, Pakiri Beach still looks like a slice of paradise; a long, empty arc of white sand extending from the Pakiri to Mangawhai. For locals like Haddon, there s worry. The beach has changed and not for the better. ....

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Pakiri locals fight plans to take their sand for Auckland beaches


Protesters form SOS for Save our Sand on a Mangawhai beach.
Photo: Supplied / Elevated Media
Sharley Haddon s description of Pakiri beach s predicament is simple: If you dig a hole in a bowl of sugar, what happens to the sugar around the edge?
She thinks almost 100 years of sand mining in the waters off Pakiri beach, north of Auckland, has caused the shore s sand and the dunes to slump into the holes and trenches left by dredging.
To visitors, Pakiri beach still looks like a slice of paradise; a long, empty arc of white sand extending from the Pakiri to Mangawhai. For locals like Haddon, there s worry. The beach has changed and not for the better. ....

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Pakiri sand mining gouging trenches in sea floor, locals and iwi opposing consent renewal


Pakiri sand mining gouging trenches in sea floor, locals and iwi opposing consent renewal
30 Apr, 2021 05:00 PM
5 minutes to read
A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores
A surfer on the Pakiri coast is dwarfed by McCallum Bros sand mining vessel which is at the centre of mulitple claims of ecological damage and consent breaches. Photo/ Doug Moores
Locals, iwi and elected officials are furious that a company heading a sand mining operation off the Pakiri coastline, which gouged almost 3-metre deep trenches in the sea floor and allegedly committed multiple resource consent ....

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