Rising seas

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So we are based in Conwy , which has an estury where years ago i believe you could motor up the river to a pub and moor upnow they are struggling to maintain the number of moorings . When we visited Maldon in Essex thats even worse , so my question to the experts why dont they dredge so these places can take more water. i dont know iam from stoke
 
So we are based in Conwy , which has an estury where years ago i believe you could motor up the river to a pub and moor upnow they are struggling to maintain the number of moorings . When we visited Maldon in Essex thats even worse , so my question to the experts why dont they dredge so these places can take more water. i dont know iam from stoke
Who's going to pay for it?
 
The building of the Conway tunnel caused a lot of the silting and even if it was dredged it would have to be done on a regular basis.
 
Someone told me that dredging is permitted in Chichester Harbour but the spoil must only be moved about the harbour. It is not allowed to be taken out to sea or dumped ashore.

Is this true?
 
So i was remembering when i visited Chester races , someone explained that the racecoarse was a port in Roman times , so the seas must have been higher in those days , Porto can you explain.
 
So i was remembering when i visited Chester races , someone explained that the racecoarse was a port in Roman times , so the seas must have been higher in those days , Porto can you explain.
Tides .
Chopping trees down , deforestation = silt + mud washing down stream clogging up what where navigable rivers .

Nip up to Glasgow , Greta s there getting a round in . :D Chat environment.
 
Tides .
Chopping trees down , deforestation = silt + mud washing down stream clogging up what where navigable rivers .

Nip up to Glasgow , Greta s there getting a round in . :D Chat environment.
Does she drink blood , and if guys from stoke drink we have to fight. having said that Boris shows his fists a lot. Also grett is in Newcastle having a big mac Gretta Toon Burger.
 
So i was remembering when i visited Chester races , someone explained that the racecoarse was a port in Roman times , so the seas must have been higher in those days , Porto can you explain.
They built a weir and it caused the river to back up and drop sediment
 
So we are based in Conwy , which has an estury where years ago i believe you could motor up the river to a pub and moor upnow they are struggling to maintain the number of moorings . When we visited Maldon in Essex thats even worse , so my question to the experts why dont they dredge so these places can take more water. i dont know iam from stoke

They build the hard after the bridge narrows which caused a back eddy and silting up

They cant dredge because it's a mussel farm, besides, they dont have the equipment

You can still get to where the pub was, you need to know where the river channel is and where the tidal flats are
 
When we were part of the EU their rules said we couldn't dredge the rivers for some reason. Farmers have been screaming about it for years because of flooding. The environment agency are the ones that are liable for them and would have to be in their budget. I read about this some time ago so cannot back it up with links sorry.
 
The reduced access to upper parts of rivers and creeks is a complex issue, and sea level is only one factor.

Big contributors to this in the last century or two, I've read are -
(a) big changes in agricultural practice leading to greater loss of soil from the land into rivers - more area under cultivation, deeper ploughing etc. by machinery as against manual/horse drawn methods, ploughing up & downhill rather than across the slope;
(b) massive increase in water abstraction from the higher reaches of rivers, both for agriculture ('better' machinery, more intensive cultivation) and as a result of urbanisation (abstraction for water consumption).
 
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