More cash to dredge MNC ports

A helping hand for councils needing to dredge ports at Laurieton, South West Rocks and Port Macquarie, as the state government's committing $8 million towards the cost of works.

That sum will be handed out across four years, with $6 million of it going to the Rescuing Our Waterways program, to get sand and muck out of the spots.

It's in a bid to make maritime access safer across ports and harbours owned by the New South Wales Government, under the new NSW Coastal Dredging Strategy.

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