Dengemarsh 3.1. 2010

Our Technical Officer , Tony Hills, has just completed his inspection of the beach maintenance work along the Lydd Ranges,  carried out by the Environment Agency over the Christmas break.  His photographs show that the profiling is very ‘thin’  with a lack of available material on the foreshore.

The re-shingling of the gap above Dengemarsh car park heading towards the Power Station’s switch house has completely failed and had been overtopped by the last storm.  There is an urgent need to correct this situation.

Galloways Lookout Tower has had some SGS (shingle, grit and sand) pushed around it but  any strengthening/re-profiling carried out in this location collapses again  as soon as the sea touches it.

Lydd Ranges 3.1.2010

DOC’s concerns have yet again  been passed on to the Environment Agency as the lack of protection to the Ranges leaves us  hoping that any bad weather will not coincide with Spring Tides in March. There is an urgent need for a  proper interim defence plan  to be installed as soon as possible and DOC will continue to monitor the situation very closely.