Letter: Rockpool not built as a swimming spot
With all the recent discussions regarding the Tuncurry Rock Pool I am sure that the majority of people do not realise that the rock pool was built for a specific purpose not as a swimming spot.
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The rock pool is actually a "wave trap", the following is from a past council release:
"The northern breakwater was completed in 1966, forming the Tuncurry Rockpool (Webb McKeown 1999).
The rock pool was created as a ‘wave trap’ to dissipate wave energy entering Cape Hawke Harbour and quickly became a popular swimming spot.
In the 1970s a net was installed to define the swimming zone and prevent bathers being swept out into the channel (www.greatlakes.nsw.gov.au – pools and beaches)".
