Galloways behind Lydd Ranges showing the rate of shingle crest erosion over a ten year period.

Tony Hills (Technical Officer - DOC)  states:

” If the beach eroded a cubic metre a year over the six kilometres of coastline behind the ranges it would equate to a shingle loss of six thousand cubic metres per annum. This would indicate that the shingle erosion is greater than the deposition being created by ‘long shore drift’ or by the ‘recharge’ at Jury’s Gap. If the erosion of shingle is to be halted or slowed the EA will have to increase the quality and quantity of the shingle being deposited at Jury’s Gap  and/or , in my opinion , construct groynes over a greater length than currently planned. ”

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