Provincial government officials will be meeting with the town council in Trepassey after their already damaged breakwater was battered by the weather earlier this week.

That’s according to Mayor Wanda Waddleton.

The original breakwater was replaced after damage from successive hurricanes years ago. However, that new breakwater was damaged during a storm in February 2024.

The town has long been pleading for a new breakwater, and the powerful fall storm that hit the island a few days ago exacerbated the damage, according to Waddleton.

She says nine to 12-meter waves were crashing over the breakwater, strewing rocks and debris over the road. She says a 100-meter section of the seawall has been broken, leaving two openings in the structure.

Waddleton says a meeting with area MHA Loyola O’Driscoll yesterday went well.

She says he is setting up a meeting with transportation and infrastructure minister Barry Petten later this week and they are hoping to get repairs started soon so that the town isn’t left in “dire straits” again.