Government agencies are in a race against time to relocate tonnes of historic waste from the former Stockton tip before the area is eroded away.
Several government agencies are planning the operation, which is expected to commence in coming days.
The waste will be buried in a specialised cell at Summerhill Waste Management Centre.
The tip, which was used until the early 1970s, was last exposed in 2018.
The Newcastle Herald reported that tubes of cosmetics, used bandages, car parts and asbestos were among the items that escaped from the site and washed onto Stockton Beach.
The incident resulted in about about 8000 tonnes of waste being dug out of the site and transported to Summerhill.
The state government contributed $1 million towards the $1.9 million project with the remainder of the cost shared between Hunter Water, Crown Lands and the City of Newcastle.
The need to repeat the operation followed several days of heavy swell earlier this week that stripped about six metres of sand from the foreshore and exposed the geofabric covering used to protect the area.
Representatives of Crown Lands, Hunter Water, Soil Conservation Service, and the Environment Protection Authority inspected the northern end of the beach on Wednesday morning. No further erosion had occurred.
Engineering works are also being finalised for the installation of a temporary sandbag wall in the area.
Additional geofabric will be laid down and sandbags installed to stabilise the area.
