PHOTO: JAMES BAKER/STUFF Wayne and Robyn Green look out over the sea that’s threatening their home.
Extreme coastal erosion has forced two families out of their beachfront homes.
Wayne Green, 61, and his wife Robyn, 51, had fallen in love with their home in Port Waikato but they have watched with dread as the shoreline crept towards their back fence, threatening to take their seaside retreat into the sea.
For the last 16 years climate change and shifting sand systems have pushed the sea further inland.
At a rate of two to three metres every year, the sea has claimed 50 metres of shore from 2002 to 2018.
Wayne could see it coming but he still wasn’t prepared for the “gut wrenching” call from the Waikato District Council on September 4.
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