Has Brightlingsea Marina been dredged yet?

I just had an email from the manager
They're dredging to 2.0m
That's a lot of mud to shift but it does mean that once again we can visit
the nice sheltered marina
 
Give it a year or so and it'll be full up of mud again. I reckon they should just add a few dozen bags of cement to the slurry in the marina and cure the problem once and for all.
 
Honest question but where does the mud come from? Is there another bit of east coast getting ever deeper as the mud moves into these places that keep silting up? I know it settles out from the water, but the water must be picking it up from somewhere.
 
CLB said:
Honest question but where does the mud come from? Is there another bit of east coast getting ever deeper as the mud moves into these places that keep silting up? I know it settles out from the water, but the water must be picking it up from somewhere.
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Soil carried away as run-off from fields. Changing agricultural practice over the post war years, switch from mixed farming to arable, increased field size and the introduction of winter cereal crops have exacerbated the problem. Essex soils are predominately clay and clay platelets agglomerate, or clump, into tiny lumps in sea water, settles out of suspension and creates the mud we love.

There has always been sedimentation around our coast but it has become much worse over the last 40 or 50 years.

But of course, I could be wrong :-)
 
Rhoda Rose said:
Soil carried away as run-off from fields. Changing agricultural practice over the post war years, switch from mixed farming to arable, increased field size and the introduction of winter cereal crops have exacerbated the problem. Essex soils are predominately clay and clay platelets agglomerate, or clump, into tiny lumps in sea water, settles out of suspension and creates the mud we love.

There has always been sedimentation around our coast but it has become much worse over the last 40 or 50 years.

But of course, I could be wrong :-)
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Crikey Steve, that sounds very technical.
See you can remember all that studying you did.
I have always thought that I have a touch of 'agglomerate platelets' , mostly round my middle!!!!!:)

unc
 
Ianqv said:
Hi All,

I was just wondering if the dredging which was meant to start in January went ahead?
If so, what sort of depth to they have in there now?

Many thanks

Ian
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Was there last week and they have started dredging the entrance to the marina. The rest of the marina was untouched and still full of self-leveling silt. They have a long way to go!

Www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk
 
successor said:
I saw a Dredger there this weekend
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I saw the dredger in operation on Thursday Feb 4th when i arrived by boat. Did you see what they were doing with the spoil? They are pumping it out on each ebb from a no more than 200m long pipe the outlet of which is moored to a big yellow buoy moored mid-channel. I was told that their trials showed all the spoil would be taken out into the Colne...........

Www.solocoastalsailing.co.uk
 
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It's very shallow there at LW, so I'm guessing that's just some of the denser spoil that isn't being carried away by the tide. I imagine that they'll scoop that up when they're done pumping out of the basin. Mind you I need someone to explain to me how the bulk of the silt is going to be carried up to the level of the saltmarsh.
 
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