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* Ms Jennie George, MP Chairperson, Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts, Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 Dear Jennie, I am enclosing some photographs taken last week of the beachfront at Curtis Parade, North Entrance. Your committee visited this site when the committee visited the Central coast in 2008. The severe weather which caused such devastating floods in Northern NSW and South East Queensland caused huge seas on the Central Coast which has effectively washed away the beach along much of the North Entrance. Curtis Parade is significant because a number of houses have had their back yards washed away leaving a drop off of several metres between their houses and the ocean. Advice from local government environmental officers suggests that some of these houses would be severely impacted on if there was to be further severe weather event along the NSW Central Coast. I would ask that that this letter and the photographs be appended to my earlier submission to the inquiry on the Impacts of Climate Change on Coastal Communities. Yours sincerely, Craig Thomson Federal Member for Dobell Phone: (02) 4351 1223 Fax: (02) 4353 8480 Email: [email protected]

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Ms Jennie George, MPChairperson,Climate Change, Water, Environment and the Arts,Parliament House,Canberra ACT 2600

Dear Jennie,

I am enclosing some photographs taken last week of the beachfront at CurtisParade, North Entrance. Your committee visited this site when the committee visitedthe Central coast in 2008. The severe weather which caused such devastatingfloods in Northern NSW and South East Queensland caused huge seas on theCentral Coast which has effectively washed away the beach along much of the NorthEntrance.

Curtis Parade is significant because a number of houses have had their back yardswashed away leaving a drop off of several metres between their houses and theocean. Advice from local government environmental officers suggests that some ofthese houses would be severely impacted on if there was to be further severeweather event along the NSW Central Coast.

I would ask that that this letter and the photographs be appended to my earliersubmission to the inquiry on the Impacts of Climate Change on CoastalCommunities.

Yours sincerely,

Craig ThomsonFederal Member for Dobell

Phone: (02) 4351 1223 Fax: (02) 4353 8480 Email: [email protected]