Many hands make light work so why not help out the Thames-Coromandel District Council's dune restoration project along Buffalo Beach this Saturday.

The project is a joint partnership with the Waikato Regional Council and in the last three years more than 20,000 plants have been planted along a 200m stretch of the Buffalo Beach coastline.

Approximately 4,000 native sand-binding plants will be planted along the Buffalo Beach coastline as part of the Thames-Coromandel District Council's sand dune restoration project this Saturday. Photo: TCDC

This Saturday's working bees will see the final section between Brophy's and Buffalo Beach planted with 4,000 native sand-binding plants.

Mercury Bay area manager Sam Marshall is encouraging people to bring their families, gloves and spades, and help them out with the planting.

'We have approximately 4,000 native sand binding plants, including flaxes and spinifex that we need dug in along 80m of our dune restoration section.”

He adds that the results speak for themselves and if locals look at the first section council staff and volunteers planted three years ago, you can already see the difference.

On Saturday The Lions are kindly putting on a free sausage sizzle to feed everyone who turns up.

Sam says the planting will go ahead rain or shine and asks everyone who'd like to help to meet at the Buffalo Beach main car park reserve this Saturday at 9am.

UPDATE ON BROPHY'S BEACH BACKSTOP WALL

The Thames-Coromandel District Council says the coastal erosion wall currently under construction at Brophy's Beach is progressing well.

The engineers are on site bagging the dredged sand which is being used to erect the backstop wall and a total of 660 sandbags will be used to complete the wall by mid-December.

After that more sand will be pushed over the wall to create a dune effect and then landscaping work will follow.