Batu Ferringhi beach erosion worsens, work underway to stabilise shore


What is left of the tower and erosion on the shoreline at present day. — LIM BENG TATT/The Star

GEORGE TOWN: A handful of gazebos along the beach in Batu Ferringhi have collapsed, a sign that the erosion is taking its toll on the shoreline.

Traders and massage service providers – some of whom have been operating there for almost 20 years – will have to be relocated to safer ground as the beach is now over a metre lower than how it looked like in pictures from about 10 years ago.

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