Work to restore Urunga’s Sea Lido has begun, with dredging currently underway in the area that is to become the restored tidal swimming pool facility.
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Bellingen Shire Council expects the dredging works to take between one and two weeks to complete.
After that, the grant received by Reflections Holiday Park Trust will be used to install the walkway components.
The announcement of the $535,000 grant for the second stage of the project was made in April and it followed an earlier one in February that funded a review of environmental factors and the dredging.
There will be no public access to the worksite for the duration of the project.
The original sea lido in Urunga was an enclosed swimming area constructed in the mid-1970s.
It was demolished by the Urunga Reserve Trust in 1999 after the structure deteriorated due to concrete cancer (decay) and became a significant safety and financial liability to the trust.
A 2015 Urunga Tidal Swimming Facility feasibility study found strong support in the community for it to be re-established at the old lido site and suggested two similarly priced possibilities for the development: Option 1A – two pontoons 25m apart with an aluminium walkway to the foreshore; Option 1B – a northern extension to the existing boardwalk, and a single pontoon that will rise and fall with the tide.