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 [...]

The Environment Agency has been busy during the last few weeks stockpiling  shingle at the Broomhill Sands Car Park. Groynes have also been repaired/replaced where necessary.

An excellent submission has been  made to the All Party Parliamentary Group for Coastal and Marine Issues by DOC’s Hon. Consultant Malcolm Kerby on behalf of Happisburgh. (CCAG) regarding the deprivation and disadvantes in coastal rural areas. A copy of this has been made available to DOC.

Work is about to continue with the second phase of a £60 million seawall at Dymchurch and letters have been sent out to hundreds of residents detailing the works and promising to keep the disruption to a minimum. This final stage of the flood defence scheme from High Knocke to Dymchurch Redoubt is anticipated for [...]

The Defend Our Coast Association (DOC)  held a very successful meeting on Friday, 26 September 2008 at the Guild Hall in Lydd. The meeting for all members and invited guests had been called in order to receive an update summary on the recent draft consultation for  the proposed sea defence schemes  on the Marsh recently [...]