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Wednesday 17 January 2024
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Tribute to golden age A TRIBUTE to the golden age of Hollywood will grace the stage at Kingston Arts Centre next month. Luke Alleva, accompanied by a three-piece band, will perform his show The Dancin’ Man on 20 February. The show draws inspiration from stars of a bygone era such as Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Donald O’Connor, and Sammy Davis Jnr. The performance takes place at 10.30am on 20 February at the Kingston Arts Centre in Moorabbin. It will form part of Kingston Arts’ Morning Melodies program. Tickets are $15 per show - more information at kingstonarts.com.au/ upcoming-events/all-events/MorningMelodies Picture: Supplied
Inundation risk for wetlands Brodie Cowburn brodie@baysidenews.com.au RISING sea levels will pose a huge risk to local waterways this century, according to a state government-commissioned report released last week. The “Port Phillip Bay Coastal Hazard Assessment” report was published last week. The lengthy technical report assessed potential damage to Port Phillip coastlines if sea levels rise by
1.4 metres. Patterson Lakes is one of the areas most at risk on the eastern side of Port Phillip, according to the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation report. “Coastal hazards in the Frankston City Council will occur along the bay coastline and inside Patterson Lakes,” it read. The CSIRO report states that the Kingston Council area faces a “tenfold” inundation risk if the 1.4 metre
sea level rise model is applied. It read that some parts of the Kingston municipality are not properly equipped for that scenario. “Much of this increase occurred in the EdithvaleSeaford Wetlands between Mordialloc Creek and Patterson River indicating that existing coastal protection structures would not be effective for 1.4 metre sea level rise,” the report read. “The highly urbanised and lowlying areas of Greater Geelong, Werribee, City of Port Phillip and Mor-
dialloc to Frankston were deemed most at risk from hazards posed by sea level rise. (...) For the Borough of Queenscliffe and City of Bayside the area of inundation approximately doubles between present conditions and 1.4 metres of sea level rise whereas for the Cities of Hobsons Bay, Greater Geelong, Frankston and Mornington Peninsula Shire the inundation area undergoes an approximate two to three-fold increase for a 1.4 metre sea level rise.”
In the Mornington Peninsula Shire municipality, the area around Martha Cove, the Balcombe Estuary Recreation Reserve, and the foreshore from Rosebud to Dromana were listed as inundation risks once sea levels rise. A map of the potential impacts of a 1.4 metre sea level rise by 2100 shows the entirety of Kingston’s coastline at risk of erosion during an extreme weather event. Continued page 3
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