With high spring tides  yet again forecast for the end of the month and early into October we are rapidly running out of time to protect the Marsh from potential flooding. The Summer has not been kind and high winds in July battered our fast eroding foreshores which already suffer from a very low standard [...]

Following the successful completion of the Dymchurch Sea Wall scheme the race is now on to ensure that funding can be allocated to complete the remaining, but as yet still outstanding, coastal defence schemes on the Marsh.
At the request of DOC the Rt Hon Lord Smith of Finsbury, who is Chairman of the Environment Agency, [...]

On Saturday, 9 July 2011, the new Dymchurch Sea Wall was officially opened by the Rt. Hon. Lord Smith of Finsbury, Chairman of the Environment Agency. The scheme was implemented by the Environment Agency  as part of the wider Folkestone to Cliff End Sea Defence Strategy.
The event was a great success and Damian Collins MP,  [...]

Homes could become uninsurable due to recent Government cuts in flood defence spending. Insurance companies have urged Government not to cut resources , stating  instead that spending for flood defences should  be significantly increased. If adequate investment in defences is not maintained , insurers will become increasingly fussy about who they insure and premiums will [...]

With high winds and tides returning during the coming winter months we have to ask ourselves how long our sea defences will hold out. So far we have been ‘lucky’…. remember November 2007?…..flood alerts were in place across the UK but the expected storm-driven tidal surges fortunately never materialised. At that time the Environment Agency [...]

DOC was presented with an excellent opportunity to fly its flag during a recent visit by Richard Branson to Dungeness when he attempted to kite-surf across the Channel.  Crowds of people watched the event which unfortunately had to be finally abandoned  due to adverse weather conditions but the mood  remained upbeat and cheerful.

DOC was afforded a rare opportunity to receive a guided tour of the Lydd Ranges and its extensive facilities. It enabled us to experience at first hand the very important role played by the MOD within our local area and re-emphasised the need to ensure that improvements to our sea defences are of the utmost [...]

The potential flood threat to the Marsh is not only a Winter occurrence! During the last 24 hours massive amounts of shingle have been eroded at the Lydd Ranges and Jury’s Gap Lookout due to high winds coupled with high tides. This has yet again left a ‘cliff face’ at the edge of the erosion [...]

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 [...]

Pioneering tests of the world’s first underwater coastal erosion monitoring system are to take place for the first time next week in Wales. ASTEC ( Automated Sensing Technologies For Coastal Monitoring)  employs a ‘grid of electromagnetic sensors’  which could  save billions of pounds and have a positive  effect on millions of lives around the world [...]