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Will the Gold Coast’s famous surf beaches and waves ever be the same again? Local and Professional surfers are fearing the worst for their favourite beach breaks as they watch them slowly diminish from increased sand build up. The surfers say the beach breaks are being wiped out by an extended pair of rock walls or groynes off the Tweed River Heads and the pumping of tens of thousands of cubic metres of sand from the Tweed River Sand Bypass which started last year. But surf isn’t the major problem that has occurred since the completion of the Tweed River Bypass. Before the bypass the locals were complaining about the beaches washing away because of the extended groynes at he Tweed mouth. So the sand bypass was planned so that the sand build up in and around the Tweed River could be put back out and the on-shore