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[tome]

Did you know that we dredge and land 2.5 million tons of marine aggregates on the s coast each year between poole and shoreham? This represents over 50% of the total 'mined' in England

Top 3 ports for landing with tonnage:

1 Southampton 834,000
2 Shoreham 768,000
3 Bedhampton 212,000

Just wanted to share this

 

[sarabande]

and do you wonder that the beach profiles are changing and stones disappearing ? When Chesil Beach does a runner before the Sailing Olympics, it will be too late to stop this wholesale rapine of marine resources.

 

[tome]

So how many lorries do you need to pick up 2.5 million tonnes?

Whats a wholesale rapine, btw and how do you stop it?

 

[rickp]

Be interesting to know how much Crown Estates makes out of that lot....

Rick

 

[Sixpence]

That should reduce the effects of increasing water levels , sounds like they're doing a good job and if it saves having to have more rip mining I'm all for it

 

[Rabbie]

Must be a hellova big trench out there.

 

[tome]

Don't know. It's a complex licensing system which also now has to meet EC directives, quelle surprise

Still trying to get my head around it and it's weird that the 'factsheets' are all issued by the dredgers mutual society and not our own dear guvvernment

Expect more on this subject - i drew the short straw on joining t'committee

 

[sarabande]

It would be fascinating to find out if they have carried out an environmental impact assessment, and what the results were.

From my own knowledge, the beach at Holywell, Eastbourne has dropped about 4 metres from where it used to be about 20 years ago, and stones have to be lorried from the downstream end of the prom back up to Holywell every winter.

 

[sailorman]

625,000 lorries

 

[graham]

Any suggestions for alternative sources ?

 

[tome]

So, 4 tonnes per lorry?

By my reckoning that means over 90,000 lorries leaving Langstone (Eastern Road) or Bedhampton (Broadmarsh rounbabout) pa or about 360 lorries per day

 

[sailorman]

they use very small lorries due to road congestion, virtually wheel barrows /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

 

[duncanmack]

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625,000 lorries

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625000 very small lorries! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif At 4 tonnes a load /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

84000 normal artic tippers

100000 8 wheelers
125000 6 wheelers
272275 4 wheelers

Oh, and around 25,000,000 wheelbarrows.

 

[sarabande]

OK, if they did stop sea mining, what alternatives are there ? Get Yeomans to dig out the whole of the Mendips, or bring in ship loads of rock from Sweden ?

Where does it all go (apart from Garden Centres) ?

 

[paulm299]

If Sahara sand is no good for concrete etc. Then import that for our beaches which are disappearing .

 

[tome]

There's a huge regional environmental assessment going on. The initial consultation finished end june

 

[Sixpence]

What we're missing here is the fact that attempts to protect the coastline from erosion in one place is leading to erosion further along so maybe it's best to just leave well alone and let the normal course of events take over

 

[graham]

Camel poo would make a change from dog poo on the beach.Beaches around here seem to be as they allways have been despite decades of dredging on the Culver Sands mcKenzie shoal,Nash Sand etc.

I dont know the answer but suspect the cost per ton will rule in the end.

 

[tome]

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Where does it all go (apart from Garden Centres) ?

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Concrete, building sites

 

[flipper]

Totally agree with you on that. Another huge consequnce of dredging is the silt it creates that wipes out marine growth, scallop colonies et al