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Erosion restricts public beach access on Gabriola Island

Jul 11, 2017 | 6:45 PM

NANAIMO — Four popular oceanfront parks on Gabriola Island’s northeast side are closed and it’s unclear when three of them will re-open.

The Regional District of Nanaimo’s (RDN) supt. of parks operations and capital projects Mark Dobbs said the four beach access points in Whalebone Community Park were battered by storms last fall.

He said three of four sets of stairs need to be replaced.

“When we went to look at the storm damage the erosion became apparent as well,” Dobbs said. “That’s when we decided to bring a geotechnical engineer in and look at these sites.”