Coastal specialist speaks

The Bays Community Group will have the Department of Environment's principal coastal specialist Mr Phil Watson as guest presenter at its next community meeting on Wednesday, June 16.

The meeting will be held at The Bays Community Hall from 7.30pm.

Mr Watson is with the operational policy unit of the Urban and Coastal Water Reform Branch of the NSW Department of Environment and will discuss the impact of sea level rise on the area.

"Many properties in the Bays are water frontage and are included in Gosford Council's recent advice on the identification of properties potentially affected by sea level rise," group president Mr Bob Puffett said.

"There are many residents of The Bays and indeed on the Peninsula who will be very interested in what Phil will have to say.

"The Bays community includes Woy Woy Bay, Phegans Bay and Horsfield Bay with some 550 homes."

Press release, 4 Jun 2010 Bob Puffett, The Bays Community Group