Recovery from ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred continues as QLD's Currumbin beach closes for repair

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Urgent repair works are being completed this morning on one of the Gold Coast's most popular beaches. it's been four months since ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred hit the city's shores, and the damage bill continues to climb.

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00:00This morning council workers are trucking in 800 cubic metres of sand to try to repair

00:10the damaged beach line here at Kurumban on the southern end of the Gold Coast.

00:15Now it may be four months on from when Cyclone Alfred hit here on the Gold Coast, but the

00:21erosion issue is still plaguing the city.

00:25The Gold Coast City Council has actually already spent an eye-watering $30 million trying to

00:31repair the city's faint beaches because of course the city relies so heavily on tourism

00:37and their beaches play a really large part in that.

00:42So just next to me along the beach there's cliffs caused by erosion which are about three

00:48metres high and there's a whole rock wall underneath there which has become exposed.

00:53Now I was just talking to a local resident earlier on.

00:57He said he hasn't seen erosion this bad along this beach since 1962.

01:03Another resident told me there's a temporary offence behind me.

01:07Yesterday that kind of fell inwards onto the beach really quickly in the space of

01:12hours just because this sand along the beach is so unstable.

01:17So it's a staggering cost and four months on it just shows how powerful mother nature is and

01:24as Toby said in his package just before huge costs from insurance and this the southeast

01:32Queensland and northern New South Wales is just continuing to recover from this extraordinary event.

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